The Colorado Rockies have parted ways with manager Bud Black following a MLB worst 7-33 start to the 2025 season, 19½ games back of the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NL West.
The Rockies also fired bench coach Mike Redmond while elevating third base coach Warren Schaeffer to the role of interim manager for the remainder of the 2025 season.
During the past off-season, Black had been given an extension through the end of 2025. Well, so much for that.
While things are not going well on Blake Street, I'm not sure if firing Black will make any difference at this point. The best the Rockies can hope for is to somehow avoid being worse than the 2024 Chicago White Sox who set a modern-day MLB record with 121 losses last season. At their current pace, the Rockies will finish the season with a record of 28-134. That would equal the number of losses incurred by the Cleveland Spiders back in 1899.
Black was hired by the Rockies prior to the 2017 and guided the team to back-to-back NL Wild Card berths in 2017 and 2018. However, the Rockies have not had a winning season since and, regardless of who is in the dugout, are on their way to their third consecutive season of 100 or more losses.
Black finishes his tenure in Colorado with a record of 544-690. He previously managed the San Diego Padres between 2007 and 2015. His overall managerial record is 1193-1403.
Meanwhile, Schaeffer has spent his entire professional career with the Rockies organization. Schaeffer played six minor league seasons in the Rockies organization from 2007 through 2012. He then remained with the organization as a minor league coach in 2013 before his first minor league managerial assignment in 2015. In 2022, Schaeffer made it to the big leagues as part of Black's coaching staff.
Now, the Rockies have given him the opportunity to manage the worst team in baseball with a good chance of being let go by the organization he has faithfully served for nearly 20 years. Such is the life of a baseball man.
Black's dismissal comes only days after the Pittsburgh Pirates dispensed with the services of Derek Shelton replacing him with bench coach Don Kelly.
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