Former Rockies ace Jeff Francis is curious about new pitching experiment at Coors Field

Former Rockies ace Jeff Francis is curious about new pitching experiment at Coors Field

The next Rockies pitching experiment has begun. Under Paul DePodesta, the new president of baseball operations, and with the tutelage of new pitching coach Alon Leichman, the team is adopting a different strategy. “We want big arsenals,” Leichman said last month. “We think big arsenals will be harder to game-plan against. You know, if a guy has six, seven pitches, that’s harder to game-plan for than if a guy has two or three, right? So we think …