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Rockies Extend Bud Black Through 2023

By Steve Adams | February 8, 2022 at 2:01pm CDT

2:01pm: The Rockies have formally announced the extension.

11:22am: The Rockies have signed manager Bud Black to a one-year contract extension, reports Patrick Saunders of the Denver Post. Black had previously been set to enter the final year of his deal, but he’s now signed through the conclusion of the 2023 campaign.

Bud Black } Steven Branscombe-USA TODAY Sports

The 2022 season will be Black’s sixth with the Rockies and 15th managing at the big league level. The 2010 National League Manager of the Year in San Diego, Black was hired by now-former general manager Jeff Bridich heading into the 2017 season. His first two years on the job resulted in Wild Card berths, with Black’s Rockies going 1-1 in those one-game postseason showdowns. The division-rival D-backs toppled Colorado in 2017, but Black and the Rockies took down the Cubs in 2018 — albeit before falling to the Brewers in a three-game NLDS sweep.

Since their last postseason appearance, the Rockies have posted three straight losing seasons. With a 171-212 record in that time (.446 winning percentage) and a change at the top of the baseball operations staff, there’d been at least some speculation as to whether Black would remain with the Rockies beyond the current season. Owner Dick Monfort is generally regarded as one of the most loyal executives in the sport (often to a fault), and new GM Bill Schmidt was a prominent figure in the front office even at the time of Black’s original hiring by Bridich and Monfort. In spite of the losing ways in recent year, it appears Black will receive the opportunity to turn the ship around.

Frankly, that’s a defensible stance for the Rockies to take. Black’s rosters haven’t exactly been set up for success, after all, as the Rockies didn’t spend anything in free agency in either of the past two offseasons. Perhaps Monfort and the front office were still reeling from an ill-fated series of free-agent foibles that saw Ian Desmond, Wade Davis, Bryan Shaw and Jake McGee sign for a combined $176MM with very little in terms of a return on investment. Perhaps Monfort truly believed that the 2020-21 Rockies were capable of producing 90-plus wins as constructed and needed little to no augmentation, as he previously implied.

Beyond the lack of roster upgrades, of course, was the organizational turmoil that eventually led to Nolan Arenado’s departure. Signed to an extension that ostensibly set him up as the face of the franchise moving forward, Arenado quickly grew frustrated with the front office’s lack of additional moves. Rockies brass had reportedly promised that his contract would be the first in a series of moves aimed at putting a perennial contender on the field, but the team instead repeatedly stood pat. A rift between Arenado and the front office/ownership grew, with Arenado famously going on record to state that he felt “disrespected” by the Rockies — Bridich in particular.

Whatever the reasoning, the lack of upgrades and the eventual trade of their clear best player makes it difficult to have set much in the way of expectations for Black. Managers are evaluated on far more than their wins and losses in today’s age of aggressive tanking and rebuilds anyhow, and there’s no indication Black has ever lost his grip on the clubhouse. He’s also known as a manager who specializes in helping young pitchers — Black himself is a former Major League pitcher — and Monfort and Schmidt surely have to be pleased with the manner in which Colorado’s rotation performed in 2021.

Coors Field will always prove problematic for the home pitching staff, but the Rockies’ rotation was generally durable and dependable. The quintet of Jon Gray, German Marquez, Kyle Freeland, Antonio Senzatela and Austin Gomber combined to start 135 of the Rockies’ games (83.3%), and each posted an ERA in the mid-4.00s with an average or better ground-ball rate. The Rockies weren’t necessarily a powerhouse rotation, but for a team that often ranks at the bottom of the league in terms of pitching performance, it was encouraging to get such volume and fairly consistent results from the top five arms.

The Rockies face an uphill battle if they hope to return to contending in a deep NL West that is currently headed up by the No. 1 and No. 2 win totals in all of baseball from 2021 (Giants and Dodgers). The Padres remain squarely in win-now mode as well, and the Rockies will be tasked with improving the club despite a bottom-tier farm system and the likely loss of two more top players (the aforementioned Gray and shortstop Trevor Story). Whether they have a Cinderella run in them can’t be known, but Black will now have another pair of chances to coax that out of this group.

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  1. Vizionaire

    12 months ago

    dang! wish he’d come to manage the angels!

    Reply
    • Wowwwwww

      12 months ago

      Why, not liking maddon? I’m a cubs fan and I know we won World Series with him, but I hated Maddon. He outsmarts himself because he’s always trying to be smartest guy in the room. Constantly changing lineups and never letting guys get into a good rhythm. If a player goes in a slump he doesn’t bench them to give them a day off, but if a player goes 4-4 he will sit them the next game. Infuriating lol

      Reply
      • l9ydodger

        12 months ago

        @Wowwwwww; sounds & manages a lot like Roberts of the Dodgers and/or the front office too!

        Reply
      • JoeBrady

        12 months ago

        Yup, once upon he was clever. But when he insisted on every move seem clever, that’s when he lost me. Some players fall under the heading of ‘flexible’, but probably not nearly as many as some imagine. Guys like Kiki Hernandez come to mind, since he can play 2B and CF equally well.

        Guys like Bryant, IMHO, aren’t ‘flexible’. Except for emergencies, Bryant should be playing 3B every day.

        Reply
      • Vizionaire

        12 months ago

        bud black is known to be a better manager of pitching. he might as well be a better manager.

        Reply
      • Randy Watson

        12 months ago

        You discribed yourself. A guy that thinks he knows more about managing a MLB team.

        Reply
        • Wowwwwww

          12 months ago

          I don’t know more about managing a team. But I think anyone with any level of baseball knowledge can see Maddon outsmarts himself. But thanks for
          Opinion moron lol

    • Arnold Ziffel

      12 months ago

      He is the sharpest knife in the Rockies drawer.

      Reply
    • Mark Smith

      12 months ago

      He should go back to the Angels and be their pitching coach. He’s wasting his time managing.

      Reply
  2. HEHEHATE

    12 months ago

    Bud Blacks tenure has been laughable at best. This guy stops any prospect in the system from achieving any kind of success it’s happened on way too many occasions. Why keep a losing manager on a bad franchise with an even worse farm system and Blackmons bloated contract. He’s playing for 5th in the division every year without a snowballs chance to get above Arizona. Colorado needs a complete overhaul from the bottom up and fresh ideas to interject into a franchise that can’t even take advantage of its own ballpark. They never cease to amaze me how full of themselves they are and this is coming from a pirates fan.

    Reply
    • solaris602

      12 months ago

      The FO lives in a bubble. The groupthink within those walls has to be outrageous. They really believe that what they’ve been doing is working, so they wanna keep on doing it. I can’t think of an organization, aside from maybe the Lions, that is as completely detached from reality as the Rockies.

      Reply
    • Mark Smith

      12 months ago

      Maybe his bosses are the ones doing that. Managers don’t make all of the decisions.

      Reply
    • MannyBeingMVP

      12 months ago

      Bud Black is a very good manager who does pretty well with the limited resources that the owner and front office provide him.

      Look at the won-loss records for the last six years, Colorado was never in last place!

      2016-2021
      SF 437 wins
      Colorado 434 wins
      Arizona 406 wins
      SD 391 wins

      The Dodgers were the top team overall for those six years. Speaking of the Dodgers, Trevor Bauer should be suspended without pay for not less than 162 games. Ozuna was not suspended enough but two wrongs do not make a right. Consensual bdsm is not a defense when you keep hitting someone who has passed out. And that is based on Bauer’s words, not those of the other party. And when you do not know your partner well, you are unable to know what is merely a fantasy for foreplay as opposed to what someone literally wants. That makes it tough to charge a crime, but easy to file a civil lawsuit. I expect a seven figure civil settlement to be done hush-hush. Dodgers should put Bauer on waivers, at least as a symbolic gesture.

      Reply
  3. Thesecondjamie

    12 months ago

    rockies are weird

    Reply
  4. 48-team MLB

    12 months ago

    It’s time for Colorado to have a true rival. Put a team in Salt Lake.

    Reply
    • Ducky Buckin Fent

      12 months ago

      Cheyenne?

      Reply
      • 48-team MLB

        12 months ago

        Here’s a 40-team league…

        Baltimore, Boston, Buffalo, New York (Yankees), Toronto

        Chicago (White Sox), Cleveland, Detroit, Kansas City, Minnesota

        Colorado, Houston, San Antonio, Texas, Utah

        Los Angeles (Angels), Oakland, Portland, Seattle, Vancouver

        Cincinnati, New York (Mets), Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Washington

        Chicago (Cubs), Indianapolis, Nashville, Milwaukee, St. Louis

        Atlanta, Charlotte, Miami, New Orleans, Tampa Bay

        Arizona, Las Vegas, Los Angeles (Dodgers), San Diego, San Francisco

        Reply
        • Randy Watson

          12 months ago

          Are you high? A 40 team league. The current teams have trouble finding enough decent pitching as it is. And you want water it down even further? Have you been sniffing Jeri Curl?

        • 48-team MLB

          12 months ago

          It was meant to be alphabetical so switch Nashville and Milwaukee around obviously.

        • smuzqwpdmx

          12 months ago

          If you water down the hitting with 40 teams competing for bats, then the pitching will be fine. Maybe somebody who throws under 90 will be able to get a job again when a smaller percentage of hitters can mash them.

        • MannyBeingMVP

          12 months ago

          32 Teams within a decade

          NL East
          1. New York Mets
          2. Chicago Cubs
          3. Miami Marlins
          4. Atlanta Braves
          5. Washington Nationals
          6. Pittsburgh
          7. St. Louis
          8. Philadelphia

          NL West
          1. Los Angeles Dodgers
          2. San Francisco giants
          3. San Diego Padres
          4. Colorado Rockies
          5. Arizona Diamondbacks
          6. Cincinnati
          7. Milwaukee
          8. Las Vegas/Portland/Sacramento/Vancouver

          AL East
          1. New York Yankees
          2. Boston Red Sox
          3. Tampa Bay Rays
          4. Baltimore Orioles
          5. Toronto Blue Jays
          6. Detroit Tigers
          7. Chicago White Sox
          8. Montreal/Nashville/Charlotte/Raleigh

          AL West
          1. Oakland A’s
          2. Anaheim Angels
          3. Houston Astros
          4. Texas Rangers
          5. Minnesota
          6. Kansas City
          7. Cleveland
          8. Seattle

        • 48-team MLB

          12 months ago

          Cincinnati and Milwaukee should be in the East with St. Louis and the Cubs in the West. Also, the White Sox would go in the West instead of Cleveland.

    • cofan17

      12 months ago

      You’re never any team’s “rival” if you’re never any good.

      Reply
      • 48-team MLB

        12 months ago

        @cofan17

        They did reach the World Series once and they were in the postseason as recently as 2017 and 2018. It’s not as if they’ve been bad every single year.

        Reply
  5. FrankDrebin

    12 months ago

    Should have given Bud a life time contract based on this massive success as the manager. The Rockies management is just too smart.

    Reply
  6. Bob333

    12 months ago

    This guy does not even make out the lineup card it is done by analytics genius LOL.They resigned him because no one else woud allow that to happen.He is a LOSER

    Reply
    • pinkerton

      12 months ago

      has more wins than you

      Reply
      • Bob333

        12 months ago

        can you say LOSER

        Reply
        • pinkerton

          12 months ago

          no but I can say “spaghetti sandwich”

          can you

  7. Cohn Joppolella

    12 months ago

    Rockies going all in.

    Reply
    • JoeBrady

      12 months ago

      Oddly enough, they could be. It would be a Rockie move to sign Bryant for $160M, after trading Arenado and taking a $52M hit.

      Reply
  8. JoeBrady

    12 months ago

    the 2020-21 Rockies were capable of producing 90-plus wins as constructed and needed little to no augmentation, as he previously implied.
    ======================================
    I think the article linked aged badly. Per the author:

    “While the Padres tweaked and the Diamondbacks reloaded, the Rockies spent the winter in neutral, engine idling in the cold, burning up precious fuel and public goodwill..”

    Since the Rockies finished 22.5 games ahead of the Dbacks, and finished only 4.5 games behind SD, without gutting their farm, and being only one of two teams exceeding the cap, I’m thinking the author missed his criticisms by a whole lot.

    Reply
  9. KennyD

    12 months ago

    Padre fan here. The guy never did a damn thing here and hasn’t done a thing in Colorado. I can’t think of a more terrible manager. Players simply don’t play for the guy, underperform and thrive when they go somewhere else. Great news for any team in the NL West. This guy is awful and will never take a team to the playoffs. The highlights of his career are a game 163. Which he lost and a wild card appearance. Swept. That’s what the guy has accomplished in all of his years of managing. If I were a Rockies fan I would be disgusted.

    Reply
    • 48-team MLB

      12 months ago

      Neither team has won it all…but the Padres joined the league 24 years before the Rockies did.

      Reply
    • GarryHarris

      12 months ago

      Neither the Padres nor the Rockies have been preseason favorites to win their division during any of Bud Black’s years managing.

      His players don’t under achieve. The few years he’s had good teams, he’s run into “red hot” teams. (2007 COL & 2018 MIL)

      I think he does well with what the front office gives him.

      Reply
  10. HubertHumphrey

    12 months ago

    It is nice to see MLB teams hiring and retaining Black managers and coaches.

    Reply
  11. bobtillman

    12 months ago

    The Rox have lots of issues, none of which are Bud Black. He’s a “meh” kind of manager, like most managers are; very few make a difference (Council, Melvin ,Dusty never gets enough credit) . Give Buddy the horses, he’ll bring them home, and that’s not a bad thing, because several out there wouldn’t.

    Reply
  12. Old York

    12 months ago

    Sounds like the Rockies are favourites to win it all.

    Reply
    • snowyphile1

      12 months ago

      This season, they lose 100, assuming 162 games.

      Reply
  13. Rsox

    12 months ago

    They have a guy who still wants the job after the Arenado/Bridich nonsense, you keep him.

    Reply
  14. atmospherechanger

    12 months ago

    If things are so bad with the Rockies, why would Bud ante up for an extra year?

    Reply
    • snowyphile1

      12 months ago

      Same as it ever was: it’s a gig.

      Reply
  15. GarryHarris

    12 months ago

    Bud Black can do better.

    Reply

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