Forty games into his ninth season as the Rockies’ manager, Bud Black has been fired. The Rox announced today that Black and longtime bench coach Mike Redmond have been dismissed in the wake of the team’s nightmarish start to the 2025 season. Warren Schaeffer (previously the club’s third base coach) will serve as interim manager for the remainder of the season, and hitting coach and ex-manager Clint Hurdle will become the interim bench coach.
“Our play so far this season, especially coming off the last two seasons, has been unacceptable. Our fans deserve better, and we are capable of better,” Rockies owner Dick Monfort said in an official press release. “While we all share responsibility in how this season has played out, these changes are necessary. We will use the remainder of 2025 to improve where we can on the field and to evaluate all areas of our operation so we can properly turn the page into the next chapter of Rockies Baseball. I want to thank Bud Black and Mike Redmond for their contributions to the organization across their eight years here. I appreciate their hard work and dedication and wish them nothing but the best going forward.”
In other coaching changes, assistant hitting coach Andy Gonzalez will take over as the new third base coach, USA Today’s Bob Nightengale reports. Jordan Pacheco and Nick Wilson will become the Rockies’ new hitting coaches.
Colorado’s 9-3 victory over the Padres today improved the Rockies’ record to a miserable 7-33, putting the Rox on pace to challenge the all-time loss record set by the White Sox just a year ago. Against this backdrop, it isn’t surprising to see some changes in the dugout, even for an organization that has long prized loyalty. The Rockies made another prominent coaching change in mid-April, when Hurdle went from special assistant to the GM to his hitting coach role after Hensley Meulens was fired.
The 2025 campaign was Black’s 18th as a big league manager, with nine seasons apiece with the Padres (from 2007-15) and Rockies (2017-today). Black has winning records in only four of those seasons, as his 1193-1403 career record is broken down as a 649-713 record in San Diego and a 544-690 mark in Colorado. While the numbers aren’t in Black’s favor, his overall effectiveness as a manager is still somewhat hard to gauge. The Padres were in a rebuilding phase for portions of Black’s tenure, and the Rockies’ issues are so myriad that it is hard to single out Black as a particular reason for the club’s extreme struggles.
Black’s arrival in Denver marked the Rockies’ last successful stretch, as the club reached the postseason as a wild card in his first two seasons as the skipper (and Black won NL Manager of the Year honors in 2017). Since then, however, the Rox have reeled off six straight losing seasons, and the 2025 season already seems like the seventh in that increasingly dismal stretch of baseball. Colorado is already coming off the two worst seasons in franchise history, after losing 103 games in 2023 and 101 games last year.
There was some speculation that Black could be let go following last season, yet the Rockies announced in October that the skipper had been signed to a one-year extension covering 2025. Black’s contract situation was somewhat unique, as it was believed that Black was essentially a rolling year-to-year deal (as described by reporter Nick Groke), yet the fact that the Rockies waited until October to finalize Black’s return was perhaps a sign of some discontent. Black’s previous two extensions had been announced in March 2022 and March 2023, giving the manager plenty of extra security and removing any lame-duck perception.
It may be that Monfort genuinely believed Black could still get things turned around, though things have gone so haywire so early that ownership had no choice but to make some kind of change. Ironically, GM Bill Schmidt just gave Black a vote of confidence yesterday in an interview with Patrick Saunders of the Denver Post, just hours before the Rockies perhaps hit rock bottom in a 21-0 loss to San Diego.
At the time, Schmidt said “I don’t think we are” at the point of requiring a managerial change. “I think our guys are still playing hard, and that’s what I look at,” Schmidt explained. “Guys are working hard every day, they come with energy, for the most part….Guys still believe in what we are doing and where we are headed. We are all frustrated.”
Of course, player effort doesn’t overcome a marked lack of talent on the roster. Colorado’s struggles have been exacerbated by lack of action from the front office, as the Rockies haven’t done much to either clearly upgrade the team, or to go in the other direction of blowing things up for a full rebuild. Monfort has often been accused of being both too optimistic about his team’s potential and too insular in his hiring practices, which has left the Rockies seemingly lagging behind the rest of the league not just on the field, but also in terms of analytics, scouting, player development, and other front office practices.
Since Monfort’s statement painted 2025 as an evaluation year, it could be that the Rockies’ brutal start has finally inspired a broader change of direction at Coors Field. What this might mean for Schmidt (a longtime staffer who became interim GM in 2021 and then the full-time GM after that season) remains to be seen, or if the Rox will perhaps explore a fire sale at the trade deadline.
Schaeffer has been a member of Colorado’s organization dating back to his playing days, as he was a 38th-round draft pick in 2007 and spent his entire six-year playing career in the Rockies’ farm system. After retiring from the field, he turned to coaching and managed three different Rockies affiliates from 2015-22, and Schaeffer then became the big league third base coach prior to the 2023 season.
While first-time MLB managers are rarely stepping into an ideal situation, the 40-year-old Schaeffer faces a tall order in trying to salvage anything from the 2025 Rockies’ season. At this point, perhaps just avoiding a record number of losses would count as a minor triumph, even if another 100-loss season seems inevitable.
Schaeffer will have an experienced voice to help him in Hurdle, who managed the Rockies from 2002-09 and led the franchise to its only World Series appearance in 2007. Hurdle also managed the Pirates from 2011-19 before retiring, and then returning to baseball in his special assistant role during the 2021-22 offseason.
Redmond and Black were hired in the same offseason, so Redmond had been Black’s chief lieutenant throughout the manager’s entire tenure in Denver. A former 13-year veteran of the big leagues, Redmond is perhaps best known for his own former managerial stint with the Marlins over the 2013-15 seasons.
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Derek Shelton is available
Too soon.
“oh, hi Clint. Hope your book tour is going well.
Just hang around for a while – a few weeks – say, until mid-May — we’ll say you’re an assistant hitting coach or something like that.
Then, in a few weeks, or a month or so, we’ll be sacking Black and you will have a bigger say.”
“Oh. Right. Yes. Ummm, of course we’ll pay you.”
Buck Showalter is pining for this golden opportunity.
Right. Because he was the problem, not an ownership group that is nowhere serious about putting a contender on the field. Good luck to the next victim.
“Our fans deserve better.”
That’s on you, Dick.
Never made sense to have a Bud at Coors
Great fans in Colorado
Average manager
Bottom three FO
This Bud’s NOT for you.
Real men of genuis
Mr this buds not for you guy
We salute you
Hurdle jumped a fence and beat it him to it
They did Bud Black a favor. That team stinks.
18 years as a major league manager and he has never been put in a position to win by the ownership he was employed by. In 18 years the teams he has managed have had a Pythagorean W/L of .421 and a win per WAR of .418 but won at a .459 clip overall. He has gotten more out of the teams he managed than most managers could have.
He is 68 years old. Time for him to ride off into the sunset instead of suffering through more guaranteed losing in Denver. Padres should bring him back as a special assistant to the GM. He still lives in Rancho Santa Fe in the offseason.
@Pads Fans Just out of curiosity do you think Andy Green did a good job in 2017? The Padres that year outplayed their Pythagorean W/L by 12 wins.
Still an unbelievable achievement to manage in the big leagues 18 years. He deserved better but at the same time all of us writing in the comments section of this website would jump at the opportunity to have that kind of experience in life, even if it can’t have all been fun.
I agree. I don’t think he’s too broken up about it. More time for him to fish now
Nan is more of the fisher-person. They still have that incredible house in Rancho Santa Fe that they have lived in for 25 years now, so I would guess she will be doing a different kind of fishing than the fly fishing they did in Colorado. Or is their good fishing in the San Dieguito river?
hahahaha
Switcheroo!
The Angels announcers just said this 5 minutes before…and Bud Black just got a vote of confidence yesterday…the Rockies needed change and Bud Black needs a vacation anyway
The dreaded vote of confidence from ownership.
I don’t think the owners themselves can honestly be confident in anything related to baseball. Since Monforts took over majority control, Rockies have languished. They had a one off in the WS in 07′, one mostly done by players developed before Monforts took over.
They should have stuck with the ever growing, forward-looking business of cattle ranching. /s
What did Dick Monfort think was going to happen this year? Somebody needs to tell him to his face some cold, hard truths because obviously he cannot glean them himself by observing his team play baseball with his own two eyeballs. He has no baseball comprehension whatsoever and doesn’t appear curious enough to acquire any. Must be merely happy owning a billionaire’s bauble and watching the gate receipts pour in. His team could be playing mixed men’s/women’s nude cricket on the field for all he knows as long the crowds keep showing up.
Credit for lots of truth with some nice alliteration, but what channel is that women’s cricket on?
The Ocho.
Finally. Black was far from their only problem, but he was a big one. Let’s hope they fire their GM after the season too, and figure out how to enter the 21st century (25 years too late, but better late than never).
Black wasn’t going to be the manager after the rebuild but this move doesn’t change the Rockies at all
Their owner lobotomized the FO into thinking all these triple A players on the major league roster are good
Also they’ve been bad for so long but they have basically no top prospects (except for dollander and the guy they drafted last year)
Fire sale time
They don’t have anyone to sell.
Black was none of the problem on that Rockies team. The problem starts with the Monforts and ends with the Monforts. That is a AAA team playing in a major league stadium. A negative WAR on both sides. That is on the owners and FO that put that pathetic team on the field, not Black.
Even if they fire their GM or prez of baseball ops the front office will still be infected by monfort
This is kind of like a Dan synder situation in the NFL but the only difference is monfort hasn’t done anything illegal
This situation and the comments on this site could also be said about the White Sox. An owner that won’t spend a dime to get anything but AAA players, retreads and losers trying to find their careers. I would say I wish they would fire the GM, but Reinsdorf would still be there. I sympathize with Rockies fans.
The Rockies record has nothing to do with Bud. He’s an experienced ML manager.
Who knows? He may well have said he’d like to go home.
No ML manager in history can win with the rosters the Rockies run out every year.
Spot on. Nobody could manage that team to a playoff series. They have had the worst front office ever. They have repeatedly given away their top players.
The owner is the biggest problem
Fire the owner, dodger fans did it to McCrook (McCourt)
“Nobody could manage that team to a playoff series.”
And almost literally anyone could have as good or better of a record with the team. Rockies have terrible ownership and a terrible front office but acting like Bud isn’t also horrendous is crazy. As the article above points out, Bud has four winning seasons in 17+ years.
@rct- Have you looked at their roster? I’m shocked they’ve won 7 games. That’s a BAD roster. They have maybe two above-average position players in Doyle and Beck, and Doyle has had horrible luck this season (.221 BA vs. .266 xBA and .352 SLG vs. .474 xSLG).
The rotation is an absolute disaster– the best results have come from Feltner with a 4.75 ERA; Freeland has a solid FIP but is running an ERA over 3 runs higher. The bullpen is a bit more promising but not much. Time will tell on Agnos, he has way too small of a sample to make a definitive judgment. Everyone else besides him and Bird is slightly below average or worse, but in reality, Bird is probably getting results above his abilities, too.
He’s horrendous. Was bad with the Padres and worse with the Rockies. Plays the game like it’s still the 1990’s and is stubborn as a mule.
He’s one of those guys who is very affable and makes friends easily, so manages to stick around in his job longer than he should, but no, he’s not a good manager, experienced or not.
And what do those two tenures have in common? Horrible ownership, awful GMs, and pathetic on-field products completely devoid of talent. I’m actually surprised the Rockies have found a way to win 7 games.
The nationals hired him before the 2016 season I believe. When he was offered a one year contract, he refused. The nationals then gave a two year contract to their second choice Johnnie baker.
Nobody can but you have to care when you are there you have to believe and you do need to try if you choose to take the money and get away doing it.
HEHEHATE;
I tried putting that though the Google translator to
make it into understandable English, but got some
sort of “Does Not Compute” message back.
Anyway, have a nice day.
Ah yes his constant losing records, utilizing washed up veterans instead of trying the hand at younger players. Definitely not his fault he’s a terrible manager
Remember when Monfort said something along the lines of“I haven’t thought of firing Jeff (Bridich), but I have thought of firing myself”? after the Nolan trade. Well, you could still do that now, Dick.
Monfort isn’t the problem, except in that he refused forever to make the necessary changes. Now (apparently) he’s decided.
How is Monfort not the problem? He’s kept Bridich and other front office members for a long time. Rockies have one of the smallest analytics departments in MLB. As long as their loyal fans keep showing up, all is good I guess.
lol yes he is he’s a historically bad owner
I am curious what you think the problem is then
Monfort is the source of the problem. Until he sells, you will suffer though more and more losing in Denver. It doesn’t matter who the manager is. That is a sad reality for what is a really good fan base.
“Well, you could still do that now Dick.” No need for name calling……heh heh. Sorry…………….
At least they let him leave on a win. Buddy is a very good manager, but he didn’t have enough to work with.
hiflew;
I know you’re a fan, but the hard truth is that the Rockies role in MLB is to develop players at the ML level for other teams.
Sorry.
I grew up a Cleveland Indians fan years ago. They did the same thing for decades. If a player somehow became good, they traded him for 2-3 prospects. If one of the prospects because good after a few years……
You mean like trading Bartolo Colon to Montreal for Cliff Lee, Grady Sizemore, Brandon Phillips? Or do you mean trading a pending FA in CC Sabathia to Milwaukee for (future 3x All-star & 1x Silver slugger) Michael Brantley,who was with the team for 10 years &(Super prospect turned dud) Matt LaPorta?
Yes,every team makes good,bad & meh deals. Fans have selected memory issues on which trades they will recall.
Prospectnvstr;
I mean from 1959 till 1993 when they were never in a pennant race come August.
Son.
Look at the players they traded and what they got back.
Just because they sucked didn’t make them a farm team. The Rockies are not a farm team, they just suck. The Kansas City A’s were a farm team back then. Every good player they ever had was basically waiting to go to the Yankees. The Marlins are a farm team except they spread it around more.
Explain please how he’s a very good manager??
All you have to do is watch the interviews with the current Rockies and you will know exactly why he was a great leader of men. And he knows more about baseball than you can get with a Fangraphs subscription and an autographed copy of Moneyball.
I love it when teams half ass it on roster construction and then fire the head coach, as if he were the problem. And that’s not to say Black or Shelton were great HCs, just that the issues in those orgs run much, much deeper than who is filling in the lineup card
Of course. Doesn’t mean it’s not wise to change things up.
Sheltons different. He got brought it to help a rebuild that nutting refuses to push the go button on. He was more a fill in.
Colorado’s has been riding high on bud for years. It’s not the wins nah it’s in the air
And here come the haters on what’s in the oxygen outside of the stadium in Colorado. Let’s really define that atmosphere.
Sorry, Oddball, but I have trouble taking seriously the comments of anyone who refers to baseball managers as “Head Coach.” I admit that might be my problem, not yours–but I really think the distinction is worth keeping. Baseball is not football.
Oddball Hererra;
Did you know that baseball has managers?
It’s scapegoat season.
Duck season!
Rabbit season!
Wabbit season.
Elmer season.
This is good will hunting
HEHEHATE;
If you run your hip stuff over on TikToc, I think you’ll pay you.
12 year-olds in their bedrooms are a captive audience.
Are you defending bud black today here or hating on google translate? I’m confused you do have a mute button if you’d like correct?
But you have a lot to say about me over Bud. And it’s definitely 6 years coming on that man for sure.
Mother’s Day no. You could have fired him at 9am Monday yea. If you wanna go to tik tok feel free go ahead by all means.
This is bud black day now man. But it is Mother’s Day too unfortunately.
A lot changes in Colorado now because of this for sure
@HEHEHATE
I rather like those apples.
Escapegoat season!
They let Black go out a winner with a 9-3 win to bring the season record to 7-33.
Black got the sack one day after a club-record loss at Coors Field. San Diego 21, Colorado 0.
Chargers missed a FG in the 4th quarter or it could have been worse.
No the CATCHER fired (pitched) off a good inning…otherwise it could have been 30-0
Monfort – you got 50 games bud
Black – turns on Bull Durham and watches the “8-16 scene”
And people keep saying how great of a manager he is. There are much bigger problems but he was definitely one of them
Rockies owners don’t deserve to have a team
It’s hard enough to get pitchers to go there
I have so much respect for true blue Rockies fans
To show up day after day to support that club, in my opinion says something about the person
The fans do. Yes they are fantastic. Some of the best in baseball for what they go through and do not deserve and if this at all.
Why not fire the gm who put this team together
Scapegoat for crappy ownership
Very odd organization fired after their most dominant win of the season.
Seemed like this was a possible outcome when Hurdle was brought back a couple of weeks ago.
Guy smashed the padres today
This “changes” everything!!
Just proves the old saying, Dick Monfort before he dicks you!
They should let AI coach the team. Let’s see if it’s any good.
“Let A.I coach”..I’ll go one step further. Call me crazy, but let’s give “Chat GPT” a shot at running owning, and marketing an MLB baseball team.
“Chat GPT” is very smart and will surely organize an ingenious “crowd fund” or crowd source” vehicle to fund the purchase of the team.
Reinvent the wheel comes up. I think it’s colorados only shot at a wild card against the dodgers for 20 years.
They should let AI run the front office
@armaments. Exactly. AI can easily do the job of upper management in most companies including CEOs. But, all companies try to use it for creative tasks. A company could easily save tens of millions replacing dead weight CEOs.
Nah, Kris Bryant isn’t doing anything, let him manage the team.
Hmm, sure, because THIS was the time and season to fire him. Yikes.
I would have given him Mother’s Day. You could have fired him Monday morning. He must have had a hot date with an interview at 9am.
Bud Black is a mother? Who cares when? The dude’s almost 70, I doubt he’s worrying about his bank account or future job prospects. He’s a terrible manager that has always been a placeholder for terrible teams.
Rockies flew to Texas after the game, they play tomorrow. Nobody is going to make the manager fly and then fire him on the road just because it’s Mother’s Day
Montfort might be a worse own than Riesdorf.
Dick Monfort is the most vocal owner in calling for a salary cap. Also wants a salary floor to discourage the cheapskates.
Because it fits his agenda. He doesn’t want to appear too cheap but being around 20th in payroll will keep the fans placated.
He’s not worse than nutting though. Not by miles.
I’m sure all will be well now with the Rockies and they’ll get back to their winning ways, just like the Pirates. These situations definitely aren’t just scapegoats for pathetic owners
Justice Colorado. Finally.
Not a bad deal for Black. He gets paid and doesn’t have to coach a terrible baseball team.
I do believe that he muttered under his breath “Finally” when informed of the decision. And his linked-in profile states that “he would like to get back to managing in the majors next season, and is no longer open to AAA jobs”.
He can collect unemployment now atleast.
Bud Black doesn’t coach very well. He’s a seat warmer for garbage teams
Bud Black has a always gotten more out of his teams than the stats of the players say they should have won. The teams he has managed have had a .421 Pythagorean W/L and .418 WAR W/L but have a .459 W/L on the field. Black has had to coach bad team after bad team with owners that refused or were unable to spend the money to win.
You attribute that to Bud Black? Okay.
That you don’t says it all. Black was a good manager saddled with bad players year after year for the Rockies.
2017 Padres under Andy Green had.a Pythagorean W/L of .354 and an actual W/L of .438.
All the managers being fired or on bubble. Need to add Zjoe Bench coach only for life of the Astros to list. He does not have this team as a true manager
What a joke of a franchise. Like it was bud blacks fault
If you can’t win 8 games in the minor leagues you don’t deserve to win 8 in the major leagues. It’s that simple today and bud black deserves this yes he does.
Man, forgive the East Coast bias but I did not realize how bad they were. I knew they were really really bad, but not really really REALLY bad.
Since that blazing 3-9 start they’re 4-24, giving up 11 hits and 7 runs a game. Something tells me Bud’s breathing a sigh of relief.
Bad is an understatement.
Colorado is incompetent.
Pittsburgh is refusal.
Pittsburgh West
National League Angels.
Finally all the talent on that roster can blossom
Black was not the problem
This is an exceptionally inept ownership group and board management, as well as a front office desperate for a scapegoat for what may be an historically bad season for the Rockies. . Bud Black is 100% not the problem. The Rockies are among the top 10 teams every year in attendance, so fan support is not the issue. What the Rockies need is a young Whitey Herzog, or Bobby Cox or Buck Showalter to come in and completely take over baseball operations, top to bottom and set them on a winning path. The Rockies have the resources. They need this generation’s Pat Gillick or John Schuerholz to step forward and take control. Sadly, I don’t see the Monfort regime being aware enough to select a leader going forward.
I generously offer John Mozeliak. I believe he is a Colorado native who got his start in the Rockies organization. He has no plans for next summer and I’m sure the Cardinals could make due without him the rest of this season.
It’s a perfect fit for all.
There’s no manager in the world that would have these team in double digit wins.
They need to clean house and remove ownership from any sort of decision making
He needed to be better than 8-16 though.
Wrong guy was fired. Although Bud has been there along time and hasn’t had success with the roster he’s had
2 playoff appearances with the Rockies. considering the team they have put on the field for him to manage, that is an absolute miracle.
They need to move the team out of Denver. No good pitching talent will go there and if they do they won’t be successful.
carlos15;
That was known back in the late 50’s which is why MLB never expanded into the area until a Colorado delegation in Congress aligned with a Florida delegation to get them expansion teams for the early 90’s. They used the threat of the government investigating MLB to be a monopoly.
The reason given for ignoring Denver as a ML area was the Denver Bears – a successful AAA franchise. In general the Pacific Coast League was a hitters league, but the stats coming out of Denver were ridiculous. Long before Statcast could measure how much less a pitch breaks in Denvers’ high altitude, batters were accumulating offensive stats they never duplicated anywhere else; while pitchers stats were absurdly poor with with any visiting pitchers ballooning their numbers compared to the rest of their appearances in the PCL (which in itself was high), so that scouts and FO people simply threw out any numbers from hitters and pitchers games played in Denver when doing evaluations.
But alas, as people moved out of the industrial northeast and into the sunbelt (forget the snow…..Colorado has over 300 days a year of sun), with it natural resources and absolutely beautiful land area, Denver metro – as well as the state – saw mass migration into it.
So what was MLB to do? A fertile, unbelievably growing area of people with businesses moving in and individual income exploding on the one hand – Congressional hearings on the other.
They’ve tried everything. Lately I read abut the humidor baseballs working. Well…..a few weeks age I heard a game broadcaster say that recent studies show a breaking pitch at Coors Field thrown by a pitcher will have over 20% less break than him throwing a similar pitch in most other MLB parks. So much for the humidor. When one considers the difference between a hard-hit ball and a pop-up or ground ball to be a fraction of an inch……..
The play this year has bern unacceptable. Gives coach nothing to work with. It’s his fault.
Bud was seriously outgunned in a very tough division.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!
They fire Bud Black NOW? After years of wandering the baseball wilderness like a team allergic to competence?! You mean to tell me this was the move? Not when we traded Nolan and PAID THE OTHER TEAM to take him? Not after watching our pitching staff turn Coors Field into a live batting practice demo for a decade?! Nah. Let’s wait until May 10th, 2025—after a win—to hit the panic button like it’s going to summon the ghost of Dante Bichette to save us.
What’s the plan now? Promote a mascot? Let Dinger manage the bullpen?
I swear this franchise is run like someone’s weird fantasy league where the goal is actually to lose creatively. I wouldn’t be shocked if our next hire is just a guy named Chad who once coached tee-ball and “really vibes with altitude.”
Bud wasn’t the problem. The problem is the mirror.
Rockies baseball: where hope goes to die, but not before being DFA’d.
Imagine if devers were on this roster today on a Kris Bryant injury.
So should they have not fired Bud? He’s terrible, the Rockies are terrible, the front office is terrible. Should they just keep the 7-33 manager? I love whenever a manager is fired in a long overdue move and fans still complain. Should they make other moves? Yes. But firing Bud is 100000% the right move.
Unless the entire FO and the owner are going too, firing Black is not going to change anything in Denver. That is still a minor league team on the field. No manager could get more out of them.
Right, but that’s not an argument to keep a bad manager. “The team is awful all around, don’t fire the manager”. I don’t get that sentiment. Fire a 7-33 manager, people complain. Do nothing all year while the team wins 40 games, people would complain about that, too. They should fire the entire front office and sell the team, but firing the manager should be a part of that and it’s the easiest move to make.
The team has actually won 39 MORE games than they should have while he has been the manager in Denver based on the performance of the players on the field. Black is not a bad manager. Monfort and his FO and baseball operations staff are horrendously bad.
What needed to be done was not fire Black. It was hire a competent FO, build a solid baseball operations staff in the minors, hire better scouts, actually have an analytics staff, and give Bud Black the players needed to win.
We all know that’s not going to happen as long as fans keep enabling Monfort’s indifference towards putting a winning product on the field. He has absolutely no reason to sell nor fire the yes-men around him with league expansion on the horizon.
Dibs on “Vibes With Altitude” as a band name.
Way to blame it on the manager when the FO is one of the most inept in MLB. Typical move for one of the worst organizations in baseball.
Nobody’s gonna touch this but what does it say about Monfort to fire bud black on Mother’s Day here. I think that’s my only defense on Bud Today. I guess the win helps too. Maybe?
Bud Black is a mother? Learn something new every day.
I’m just saying what’s 9am here after a win. I think I would have given bud that today.
Don’t know how much of the blame is on Black but ownership and the GM have given him absolutely nothing to work with. I really hope the organization figures it out soon so we can see the Rox contending again.
Good decision but should fire Clint hurdle too not just keep giving the old guy more ways to ruin team. Hurdle has been behind all these moves because he is a power hungry ahole.
Such a horribly run franchise. good for Bud Black.
Why not just name Hurdle Manager and hope he can change something, anything…
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If i remember correctly, black did pretty well as a pitching coach back in the day. I remember his staffs always seemed to do better than expected. Wonder if hed go back to that.
Total boobs at the top.
Man Boobs!?
That might actually make this team worth watching.
Love when owners proclaim that the fans deserve better.
Do better then.
Won’t fix anything. Better off saving the money and keeping him as manager until the end of the season. Player development doesn’t happen in the major leagues.
Apparently, it doesnt happen too much in the Rockies minor system either
Only way things get better is if cheap owners sell their teams
General Manager wasn’t going to fire himself.
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We do a baseball trip every year. It is amazing with the Rockies futility they have awesome attendance numbers. I can’t believe they don’t spend more on position players and just scout and load up on pitchers via the draft. The literally have been 9, 10, 13 and 15 the last four years in attendance rank with a terrible team.
Attendance is amazing. Somehow the hope is there and fans support hand over fist for this team. They deserve a lot better than they get. It’s a shame.
Yea, why are Coloradoans still pouring money into this incompetent ownership group?
Where are they going to go for pro sports — Broncos ain’t playing during spring and most of summer.
Outside of a minor league team next closest MLB team is the Royals or go through the mountains to get to Diamondbacks (most likely need to fly the skies to see a game)
As long as Bud wants a managerial job, he’ll have one. He’s a good man. I doubt this will do anything to help, though.
Yeah, cause it’s the managers fault they’re 7-33 lol
It’s about time!!
Sell the team Monfort. You’re a loser!
I’m so happy for Bud Black, he just found way out of purgatory.
Fall guy. He will help a real MLB team soon.
What are the odds he’ll be the best Angels manager?
Bud Black is just a scapegoat, the problem is with the whole organization, starting at the top. Monfort won’t ever sell when over 38000 morons pay good money to watch a team lost 21-0. This will not get better till owners hire a real baseball person to run the team.
None of the Bud Black critics seem to offer anything specific that he did wrong. Just a bunch of tired old generalities.
Unless he was the one blocking the kids from playing, this is all on an FO and owner that have to be the dumbest in baseball.
Well he sure seemed to prefer playing washed up vets over the kids so
Firing the manager isn’t going to help the fact that team just isn’t built with a winning mindset. And it’s not to the fault of Coors Field or any of that garbage logic.
Sacrifice a lamb. Done.
How desperate is Clint to go from Pirates purgatory to Rockies purgatory????
This solves nothing
. Some change had to be made, but the Rockies FO opted to make Bud the scapegoat instead of addressing their own ineptness and apparent lack of any kind of plan to make meaningful strides towards competitive baseball.
It would appear that Bud’s time in baseball purgatory may be done, and he now has the opportunity to move on to a better situation.
Bud isn’t a scapegoat. He was not the only problem, but he was part of the problem. He is old school. How many of the Rockies pitchers throw cutters or split fingers? Players aren’t developing at the major league level. When has a player come up and gotten steadily better? As manager you get to pick your staff. Bud had plenty of time, in fact years to see it wasn’t working and what did he do, the same thing over and over.
If you don’t know the answer to why you don’t throw either pitch at 5k feet, then you shouldn’t be commenting.
Bud Black never got to pick his staff.
You seem totally unconnected to reality.
Right I’m sure he had no say whatsoever, guy is a horrible manager
“Our play so far this season, especially coming off the last two seasons, has been unacceptable. Our fans deserve better, and we are capable of better,” Rockies owner Dick Monfort said…
I agree. Start with yourself, Monfort.
The problem isn’t the manager or field staff (maybe the GM; don’t know much about him). The problem starts at the top. Same thing as Anaheim & Pittsburgh to name a couple; ownership is killing the team, not the coaching staff.
Doyle should be in the 2 or 3 spot, when Tovar returns.
“We will use the remainder of 2025…” May 11th.
Does it really matter who manages that team?
Oh right THAT was definitely the problem lol
Padres should hire him as director of minor league pitching development. He always brought the best out of pitchers here when he was manager. Should be given a chance to work with young guys coming up through the system.
Peavy will get this done, maybe even by tomorrow. Haha
After Saturday, I thought they might select Bud to the 26-man roster and ask him to give them an inning today.
It is not going to get better in Denver. Just put a K on the Rockies breaking the White Sox record for futility, Only got +150 odds. They are the odds on favorite to beat the White Sox record for losses.
This does nothing whatsoever to improve this team. should have fired the GM too for putting a team like this together.
Can’t get blood from a rock but you could get a rock before trying.
I remember Bud more as a pitcher than a manager as a whole.
The Rockies prob preferred to appoint Hurdle as the interim manager but he had no interest in crashing his winning percent with a team destined to lose well over 100 games this season.
Happy trails Buddy, keep some fish in pond for the rest of us!
Bud is headed back home to Rancho Santa Fe while collecting a paycheck without having to manage that AAA team the Rockies FO put on the field. This is a good thing for him. Hopefully Preller hires him as some sort of special assistant.
Would love to see Buddy back in the org! Hana hou Bud!
Denver is a beautiful place to see any of the 29 other teams win an away game. honestly, they should advertise that in the other non-Colorado markets.
Doing Bud a favor. The Rockies ownership is a joke
I always liked Bud. I remember my friend in the PO met him a couple of days after game 163 when delivering his mail. During this past spring training, he did a nice little thing for Ted Leitner’s retirement with Bochy. Hope he enjoys retirement, or at least, getting out of Colorado.
2nd manager to be fired after Padres came to town this season. Who is next?
Best thing that could have happened to Bud is to be able to leave the he ll that is the Rockies organization. He deserves better.
Come to Atlanta next. Love Snit but he’s over it and we could use some fresh thinking, better in-game choices, and less lineup shuffling.
Padres in Atlanta the 23-25th of this month
Been managing on a series of 1-year deals for a while now. Could have left in any offseason.
Dodgers manager Dave Roberts on the firing of mentor Bud Black of the Rockies:
‘I don’t think Casey Stengel could change the outcome of that ballclub. That’s not the manager’s fault.’’
What a quote!
Yes Montfort, the manager is definitely the main problem with your team (eyeroll)
Firing the dude just a few hours after giving him a vote of confidence, is so Rockies.
This had nothing to do with Black, this was all ownership and their incompetence.
Maybe the Rockies’ All-Star this July will step down as to not tarnish the All-Star Game.
The Rockies are such a poorly constructed team. Any manager that takes the job is just there for a paycheck
I just feel for Rockies fans. Yeah its a very challenging division but these fans deserve better than this – and so does everyone for that matter. The way the Rockies have been run recently isn’t just bad for baseball it feels like it’s just a bad look for all professional sports in the US.
This franchise has never had/has direction. Poor player evaluation has always been a problem, but lacking a clear directive from top to bottom is thier main problem.
I kind of echo the baseball prospectus view of I don’t root for them to lose every game, but when they do, it should be an utter embarrassing blowout, as it often is. Running a franchise so horribly should be punished, for the good of the fans. This franchise doesn’t know what it’s doing or seem to much care, and maybe some sharp, embarrassing pain will prove teachable, though I’ll believe it when I see it.
This changes nothing. The problem wasn’t Bam Bam, nor Bud. The problem is the ownership. The meatpacker brothers are making a fortune off the taxpayer funded ballpark. Why would they actually spend money on good players?
7-33. At this point are they even trying?
This is definitely not Bud Black’s fault
Even in a world with the Marlins and White Sox, the Rockies are the worst run franchise in MLB, and it’s not close. And it’s not about incompetence. it’s about desire. Ownership doesn’t want to win. Winning takes investment. Winning takes risk. Winning takes effort. As long as they’re still turning a profit–hint, they are–they’re fine with losing. They just want to do it in a slightly less humiliating fashion. None of that is Bud Black’s fault. His only significant mistake was taking the job in the first place.
He’s a great baseball mind. Definitely not his fault. Need to fire to owner.
Some of us had a very productive talk about the Rockies on here over the weekend and I’d like to think ownership saw that and pulled the plug. Not impossible.
I haven’t read all 200+ comments, so I apologize if this has been said, but I totally thought of the Angel’s when the article said the following:
“… has left the Rockies seemingly lagging behind the rest of the league not just on the field, but also in terms of analytics, scouting, player development, and other front office practices.”
Nothing will meaningfully change in Anaheim or Denver until Moreno and Monfort sell their teams.
They could sell to each other! Kill 2 birds with 1 stone! Problem solved!
“Especially coming after the last two seasons” sounds like they’d been making progress. I suppose losing 101 games after 103 the year before is progress. What a sad organization. One of several in MLB. They must bring in new everything, including an owner.
This Rockies team would make any manager in the history of the game look like a total incompetent.
Simple rule that could never happen, but could save baseball: any owner of a team that has five straight losing seasons must sell the team. Pirates could be juggernauts.
Managment is allowed to do what they want, but out of all the reasons the Rockies stink, Bud Black is probably the least of it all. The irony is that the people working above Bud Black that fired him are probably the most to blame for the state of the franchise.
Sometimes the best thing an owner can do is the opposite of what they are doing. If you are heavily involved, impose a self-exile from the teams’ decisions outside of money. If you aren’t involved in decisions, insert yourself as a check to balance out upper management by holding them all accountable. Weed out those whose decisions hurt the team and promote go getters that consistently make prudent or bold successful moves.
From the outside I see little progress anywhere.