When the 2026 season opened for the Colorado Rockies, some hopes were there that possibly this team could get a National League Wild Card spot. As the season has gone on, though, that possibility just didn't materialize.

On Sunday, the Rockies received news that wasn't totally unexpected. They have been eliminated from postseason play. This happened after the Arizona Diamondbacks defeated the Houston Astros 3-2 at Daikin Park in Houston on Sunday.

While it is easy to see this news and think that Colorado hasn't had a good season (which would be true record-wise), there have been signals of an improving ballclub. 

Fans have to measure improvement by looking at young players like TJ Rumfield and Cole Carrigg coming to the big-league club and producing. The home-run touch of catcher Hunter Goodman has been a positive, too.

Yet the Rockies' pitching staff has been less than stellar. If you look at the staff from a season-long perspective, only Tomoyuki Sugano provided some type of steady outings for Rockies manager Warren Schaeffer.

This has been the first full season for Schaeffer to be leading Colorado from Spring Training onward. He's focused on making sure his players follow his own style and attack the strike zone for pitchers and hitting zone for hitters.

Colorado also has had leadership from the front office with president of baseball operations Paul DePodesta and general manager Josh Byrnes looking to make moves that can assist this season's squad.

The bigger news on the horizon, though, is that team ownership might be changing in the offseason. Longtime Denver sports columnist Woody Paige revealed in a recent column that "the Penner Sports Group could be open to purchasing the majority share of the Rockies sooner than expected," according to a post from DNVR Rockies on social media.

"The Penners are reportedly interesting in purchasing an additional 35% sometime after the CBA expires", the post continued.

As if Rockies fans needed to be reminded, the Monfort family, run by Dick and Charlie Monfort, have been principal owners. The Penner Sports Group has had a minority stake in ownership, though.

Colorado sports fans have not been happy with the Monfort brothers' leadership and ownership decisions. Getting a new lead owner as the ballclub might just be the change in ownership that fans will get behind.

On Sunday, the Rockies were behind 10-6 in the bottom of the eighth inning to the St. Louis Cardinals at Coors Field. Colorado is looking to avoid another 100-loss season and that clock toward the final game of the 2026 season is ticking.