The Colorado Rockies are making a change amid their traditionally dangerous begin to the 2025 season. Bud Black has been fired because the Rockies’ supervisor after going 7-33 in his ninth season in Colorado, the workforce introduced Sunday. The workforce additionally fired bench coach Mike Redmond.
“Our play to this point this season, particularly coming off the final two seasons, has been unacceptable,” Rockies proprietor, chairman and CEO Dick Monfort mentioned in a press release. “Our followers deserve higher, and we’re able to higher. Whereas all of us share this accountability in how this season has performed out, these modifications are crucial. We’ll use the rest of 2025 to enhance the place we are able to on the sector and to judge all areas of our operation so we are able to correctly flip the web page into the subsequent chapter of Rockies baseball.”
Colorado’s 7-33 begin is tied for the second-worst 40-game begin for a workforce in MLB historical past and is the worst mark since 1988. The Rockies truly received on Sunday, defeating the San Diego Padres to keep away from tying the 1988 Baltimore Orioles for the worst begin.
Nonetheless, Sunday’s 9-3 win adopted a 21-0 loss to the Padres on Saturday, which prolonged the Rockies’ shedding streak to eight video games on the time as in addition they pitched a place participant for the second time in three video games.
That loss additionally dropped the Rockies’ win differential to minus-134 on the season. That mark was the second-worst in MLB historical past, solely trailing the 2023 Athletics (minus-146). It’s now minus-128.
Black took over as Rockies supervisor in 2017, serving to Colorado attain the postseason in 2018. Since then, the Rockies have largely turn into an afterthought in MLB, ending final within the NL West in every of the final three seasons. The Rockies went 544-690 in Black’s 9 seasons as supervisor.
“I need to thank Bud Black and Mike Redmond for his or her contributions to the group throughout their eight years right here,” Monfort continued in his assertion. “I admire their exhausting work and their dedication and want them nothing however one of the best transferring ahead.”
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