In a move that could shock no one, the Rockies have parted ways with manager Bud Black after an abysmal start to the 2025 season.
Good morning, baseball fans!
Although the San Francisco Giants are off to a great start to the 2025 season, it’s not going to be an easy task to get to the offseason or even take the division. The National League West might just be the most competitive division in baseball at the moment.
As of the time this is being written, the Los Angeles Dodgers are first in the division, but the San Diego Padres and the Giants are hot on their heels, and even the Arizona Diamondbacks are aren’t too far behind.
The same cannot be said for their other division rivals, the Colorado Rockies. As of Monday, they were 7-33 for the season, a disastrous start no matter the division. And as poorly as things have gone for the Giants in previous seasons, even when they’ve made organizational changes, they have been at the end of the year. Not the beginning.
But the Rockies could not wait any longer if they hoped to avoid the worst record ever held by a MLB team. Or, you know, avoid losing 100+ games for the third season in a row.
And thus, they decided to part ways with manager Bud Black and bench coach Mike Redmond on Sunday. Per a report from Steve Berman and Dennis Lin of The Athletic, Rockies third-base coach Warren Schaeffer will be the interim manager, and hitting coach Clint Hurdle will be the interim bench coach.
In that same report, Rockies General Manager Bill Schmidt appears to signal that these interim positions will be for the remainder of the season. If I were a Rockies fan, I don’t know that that would feel very reassuring about the direction the team is going in. It feels more like an admission of surrender for the 2025 season. Which is maybe not the best idea if you still want people to attend games this year, but is probably a rational move by the organization.
The Rockies have not finished higher than fourth in the division since 2018, in which they won the National League Wild Card game, but lost the division series to the Milwaukee Brewers. Since then, they have barely even approached a .500 record and are on pace to dethrone the 2024 Chicago White Sox for the most losses in a season.
I feel for Rockies fans, for sure. As bad as things have felt for the Giants at times over the last decade, they haven’t been quite that bad at least.
So with Black the first manager to be ousted in 2025, who do you think will be fired next?