Squint hard enough, and you just might be able to see reason for hope in LoDo.

Trevor Story is likely not long for Colorado’s thin air, and ownership appears ready to fill its general manger opening with a guy who’s already been in the building for years.

But have you seen? The Rockies got a guy who can throw a baseball 102 mph!

Rockies’ young fellas — B-

Forget, for a moment, about rookie starting pitcher Ryan Feltner’s shaky debut (2 2/3 innings, five hits, two walks and six earned runs). Or the fact that young flamethrower Julian Fernández served up bombs in his first two appearances this week.

Let’s just focus in on that 102.4 mph fastball Fernández threw in his MLB debut Sunday, as well as the clutch hitting of infielder Colton Welker in Thursday night’s dramatic victory over the Phillies.

In case you missed that last part — and since it happened the same night the NFL kicked off its season, you probably did — Welker had an RBI single in his first MLB start followed by a clutch two-out single to spark a three-run rally in the ninth in Philadelphia.

That’s enough for the folks inside the Grading the Week offices to forget about his PED suspension earlier this season.

We’ve got to find something to hold on to.

The Rockies may be silently shuffling toward a third straight losing season. All-stars have left or are soon leaving. But at least we can dream about young talent that might one day develop into all-stars themselves … just in time to be traded elsewhere.

Bradley Chubb — D+

Who among us wasn’t a scofflaw at 25 years old?

The Grading the Week staff certainly were, so we can relate to Broncos outside linebacker Bradley Chubb, who was detained earlier this week for missing a court date in Douglas County.

The 2018 first-round pick was scheduled to appear in court Aug. 6 for charges stemming from a May 6 traffic stop for driving with expired plates and driving under restraint (misdemeanor). But he also had practice that morning in Dove Valley.

So what do you care about more, Broncos Country: Chubb gaining back that explosive first step? Or him showing up in DougCo to pay low-level fines?

Apparently, you can’t have both.

Showing up to court is a total hassle. As is renewing your license plate tags (although, it must be mentioned that in our wild-and-woolly days, you didn’t actually have the option to pay online).

So, we’ll give one of our favorite edge rushers a pass on this one — just so long as he gets double-digit sacks this fall.

Larry Walker — A+

The National Baseball Hall of Fame induction of one of the Rockies’ all-time greats was a long time coming — 10 years and 409 days to be exact, thanks to COVID-19.

Walker delivered a thoughtful and touching speech upon being inducted alongside Derek Jeter and Ted Simmons. Best of all, Walker did it while wearing a SpongeBob SquarePants lapel pin.

We all remember the shirt he wore the day he was voted in on his 10th and final time on the ballot — a Spongebob NASCAR T-shirt emblazoned with the words, “Ain’t no ordinary sponge.”

To play along with that one more time, after the shirt became a viral sensation, is just the sort of light touch we’d expect from Walker. Just one of the many reasons he was so beloved in LoDo.