Not so long ago, we here at America's Fish were bemoaning how slow the Colorado Rockies were moving in their offseason plans. Coming off a disappointing season, there seemed no sense of urgency about making the team interesting or competitive. With the acquisition of infielder Marco Scutaro from the Boston Red Sox on Saturday, we would like to take it all back.

The first book finished in the bowl here in 2012 is Steven Levy's In the Plex, a history of Google. Reading the book straddled the birth of my daughter — I was halfway through when she was born and have since been too busy to get much reading done — which leads me to at least consider what sort of company Google will be in her lifetime.

A few hours after midnight on January 1 this year — I was far too tired for anything so dramatic as the stroke of midnight between 2011 and 2012 — InsideTheRockies.com, one of the first projects for America's Fish, was locked down. For the first baseball season since 1996, I will be merely a fan in 2012.

Were I still an underpaid sports editor, and along with it a member of the Baseball Writers Association of America, my Hall of Fame vote would count tomorrow. Instead, I pick for the fun of it again this year, just as I did around this time a year ago.

As it stands the Rockies will go into the 2012 season with a bullpen roughly the same as what they had last year, a rotation that while lacking a big arm has more depth and a slightly, but significantly improved starting lineup.