GREELEY — Last season’s disaster was an anomaly, Dick Monfort said at the annual Friends of Baseball breakfast event here Saturday morning, and he expects Colorado to bounce back strong with a franchise-record win total in 2020.

The Rockies owner, addressing the crowd gathered at the Island Grove Event Center, compared the club’s 78-win flop in 2008 — which was wedged between a World Series appearance in 2007 and another playoff appearance in 2009 — to what happened in 2019.

“In ’08, with basically the exact same team (as ’07), we won 74 games and lost 88,” Monfort said. “But like a great American hero, Forrest Gump, once said, ‘(Stuff) happens.’ And that’s what happened in ’08, because in ’09 we won 92 and lost 70. Most of the people I talk to that were on those teams say the ’09 team was our greatest team.

“I interpolated ’07, ’08 and ’09 — I had an analytical staff go through and interpolate those numbers — and so in 2020, we’ll win 94 games and lose 68.”

Monfort said that while one fan in attendance at the breakfast was correct in expressing to the owner how the Rockies “(stunk) last year,” Monfort believes Colorado’s current roster is primed to reach its potential this year.

That confidence is despite a quiet offseason by the Rockies in which they are the only team to not spend any money in major league free agency. Plus, Colorado had a National League-worst 5.56 staff ERA in 2019. But Monfort believes the team that made the playoffs two straight years before last season will return in 2020.

“We’re very pleased with the talent we’ve got, we’ve got some young pitching, and we’d like to think a couple of our guys had sophomore slumps,” Monfort said. “We have a lot of pitching (overall), we’re going to have a better bullpen and there are some guys who are going to bounce back.”

Will Kyle Freeland re-find his ace stuff? Will Colorado finally get production out of reliever Bryan Shaw? Will Wade Davis rise up from a disastrous 2019 and regain the closer role? Will young prospects in the bullpen and in the lineup help carry the load?

The Rockies face many questions, but by his win projection, Monfort is optimistic many, if not all, of those turnarounds can occur.

“I know we’ll have more fun than we had last year,” Monfort said. “Hopefully we have another magical season like ’07.”

In his brief eight-minute speech, Monfort didn’t address the dark cloud that will be hanging over Rockies spring training in a couple weeks: the public dust-up between all-star third baseman Nolan Arenado and general manager Jeff Bridich.

Arenado signed an eight-year, $260 million deal last February — then a record contract by average annual value for a position player — but his public comments about the Rockies’ disappointing 2019 did not sit well with Bridich, according to reports. The two had a contentious argument in a postseason meeting, which preceded the Rockies fielding trade calls involving the third baseman this winter and Arenado ultimately saying he felt “disrespected” by the general manager.