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Reuters
2 days ago
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- Reuters
Ryan McMahon aims to propel Rockies to sweep of Twins
July 20 - The Colorado Rockies will look to turn their first home series win of 2025 into a three-game series sweep on Sunday when they host the Minnesota Twins in Denver. The Rockies recorded a 6-4 win over the Twins on Friday and a 10-6 victory on Saturday. "That's definitely a nice building block," Colorado interim manager Warren Schaeffer said. "We want series wins at home. Nobody wanted it to take this long to get it, but it doesn't matter. We got it right now." Colorado's last home series sweep was against the Texas Rangers on May 10-12, 2024. "I feel we're capable of this, even more," said Rockies third baseman Ryan McMahon, who homered on Saturday night. "It's just coming out there and making sure we're doing it every single day, having a process of how we're going to get it done, instead of just talking about what we want to get done." McMahon has homered in consecutive games to bolster his trade stock. "It drives my wife crazy," McMahon said, per of the trade talk. "I try not to look at it, dude. If I'm going somewhere else, I'm going to do the same stuff that I do here." Ezequiel Tovar and Hunter Goodman also homered for Colorado on Saturday. Tovar's two-out, three-run blast in the fifth inning broke a 3-3 tie. Goodman, who also drove in three runs, belted a two-run homer in the eighth. The Rockies are 12-36 at home this season. Colorado second baseman Ryan Ritter likely will miss a few days after requiring three stitches on one of the fingers of his right hand. He sustained the injury after taking a pitch off the finger during a successful sacrifice bunt attempt on Saturday night. The Rockies are scheduled to send right-hander German Marquez (3-10, 5.57 ERA) to the mound on Sunday. He has been stingy in two career starts against the Twins, posting a 2-0 record and 0.71 ERA. In Marquez's most recent start against Minnesota on June 24, 2022, he surrendered only three hits in 7 2/3 scoreless innings but walked five and struck out two in the 1-0 victory. Colorado will have to solve right-hander Joe Ryan (9-4, 2.72) to complete the sweep. Ryan is 1-0 against the Rockies in his career two starts but with an 8.10 ERA. His last start against them came Sept. 29, 2023, when he gave up six runs and eight hits in five innings with a walk and six strikeouts in a 7-6 Minnesota win. He did not figure into the decision. The Twins have lost three games in a row. "The bottom line is we've got to play better baseball, and we haven't been able to do that consistently this year," Minnesota shortstop Carlos Correa said. "There's 60-some games left (64) and we've got to figure out a way to put ourselves in a better position. And everybody in this clubhouse, this coaching staff, every player in here, we've got to do better. We're not doing a good job." --Field Level Media
Yahoo
12-07-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Rockies option former Vol to Triple-A ahead of MLB All-Star break
Former Tennessee baseball pitcher Chase Dollander was optioned by Colorado to Triple-A affiliate Albuquerque on Monday. The former Vol made his Major League Baseball debut on April 6 and has appeared in 15 games, including 15 starts, for the Rockies during his rookie season. Dollander (2-9) has recorded 52 strikeouts and a 6.68 ERA in 68.2 innings. Advertisement Colorado interim manager Warren Schaeffer discussed the right-handed pitcher being optioned to Triple-A ahead of the MLB All-Star break. "He absolutely has things he needs to work on," Schaeffer said of Dollander, per Molly Burkhardt of "He needs to work on his efficiency and getting deeper into games and throwing more strikes early in counts, and he knows all this, and it's a good time for him to go down there and work on it." Dollander was selected by Colorado in the first round of the 2023 MLB draft (No. 9 overall). He played for the Vols from 2022-23 after transferring from Georgia Southern. More: Former Vols by the numbers in 2025 MLB Week 15 Follow Vols Wire on Facebook and X (formerly Twitter). This article originally appeared on Vols Wire: Colorado options former Vol to Triple-A ahead of MLB All-Star break
New York Times
08-07-2025
- Business
- New York Times
As Rockies spiral towards historic losing season, front office shakeup could be looming
Et tu, Rockies? The idea of Colorado moving on from general manager Bill Schmidt is generating chatter within the industry and drawing public acknowledgment from ownership. But before Sunday, the possibility of Schmidt getting dismissed or more likely reassigned before the amateur draft and trade deadline seemed remote. Advertisement It might still be remote, but baseball often is a copycat industry. And the Washington Nationals, operating without regard for the baseball calendar, just fired president of baseball operations Mike Rizzo and manager Davey Martinez one week before the draft and less than a month before the deadline. If anything, the Rockies have even more reason to act. At 21-70, they are on pace to finish 37-125 and break the 2024 Chicago White Sox's mark for the worst record in modern major-league history. When it comes to the draft and deadline, it would be almost impossible to do any worse than they have for the past decade. Schmidt, 65, ran the scouting department for more than 20 years before becoming GM in May 2021. The Rockies already have instituted changes, replacing manager Bud Black with Warren Schaeffer on May 11 and installing Walker Monfort, the son of owner and CEO Dick Monfort, as executive vice-president on June 26. Schmidt, sandwiched between the two, almost certainly will be the next to go. Every draft and every deadline is potentially transformative. The Rockies hold the No. 4 overall pick. Their major-league roster includes players other teams want. But the franchise is so far gone that its decisions over the next month will carry only so much importance. The Rockies' next head of baseball operations needs to come from outside their weird little world, but possess a feel for the challenges of building a winner at Coors Field. And the first task for that person should be to gut virtually the entire organization. Walker Monfort, through a team spokesperson, declined comment Monday on Schmidt's status. A move in the coming days would be as curiously timed as the Nationals' firing of Rizzo, not that the Rockies ever seem to care about departing from industry norms. But whether the team would be confident elevating an interim replacement the way the Nats did with assistant GM Mike DeBartolo is not known. As recently as March, Dick Monfort, chairman of the owners' labor policy committee, sounded more comfortable calling for a salary cap than addressing his own failures as an owner, telling the Denver Gazette, 'the competitive imbalance in baseball has gotten to the point of ludicrosity.' Teams in smaller markets than Denver – notably, the San Diego Padres, Tampa Bay Rays and Milwaukee Brewers – find ways to compete. But Dick and his brother, Rockies co-owner Charlie Monfort, finally seem to be seeing the light about their own operation, at least by the standards of an organization that takes peculiar pride in operating with the shades down. Advertisement Charlie Monfort told the Denver Post last month, 'We need a new set of eyeballs.' Dick Monfort did not disagree, saying, 'That's not only Charlie's opinion, it's the public's in general, and I get it. There is a criticism, which is fair, that we are very loyal, insular, and we promote from within.' Dick Monfort also made the point that baseball at altitude is different, saying, 'We have this dynamic of playing somewhere where nobody else plays.' The Rockies certainly have not figured out how to achieve sustained success at Coors, making the playoffs only five times in their 33-year history, and back-to-back only in 2017 and '18. The park's offensive tendencies, combined with the way players wear down at altitude, might exasperate even the most brilliant baseball minds. Across the sport, rival executives have gamed out theories for how to conquer the elements in Colorado. But the ideal choice for the Rockies would be someone who is intimately familiar with the Coors experience, someone who previously worked for the organization, then went onto other clubs. Thad Levine, who was in the Rockies' front office from 1999 to 2005 before becoming assistant GM of the Texas Rangers and GM of the Minnesota Twins, fits the profile. So do Seattle Mariners GM Jerry Dipoto, who pitched for the Rockies and served two stints in their front office, and Mariners assistant GM Andy McKay, who was Colorado's peak performance director before joining Seattle as farm director. Levine, whose people skills and leadership ability might make him more suited to a team president's role, currently is available after agreeing to part ways with the Twins last October. The Rockies could hire him immediately and give him time to learn the organization, similar to what the St. Louis Cardinals did with Chaim Bloom. Advertisement Dipoto might not want to leave Seattle, where he has headed baseball operations since Sept. 2015, for a lateral position with a downtrodden franchise. McKay, who according to major-league sources, interviewed for the Miami Marlins' managerial position last offseason, might prefer a role that bridges the gap between the front office and players. Milwaukee Brewers special advisor Billy Eppler, who served a nine-month suspension last year for fabricating injuries to create open roster spots for the New York Mets, began his career in baseball as a Rockies scout. A number of former GMs with no ties to the Rockies, from Dayton Moore to James Click to Ruben Amaro Jr., also could be candidates, both in Washington and Colorado. The task will not be easy for whoever the Rockies choose, not when the team lags in so many areas. Take the draft, for example. In the past nine years, the Rockies have had five top 10 picks and nine others in the top 42. Those 14 picks have combined for -1.7 bWAR, though the number could rise in the future. Right-hander Chase Dollander holds considerable promise and last year's first rounder, outfielder Charlie Condon, was No. 14 in Keith Law's latest top 50. On the trade front, the Rockies for years refused to engage on many of their better players, missing one opportunity after another to maximize on those players' values. They plan to be more open-minded at this deadline, entertaining offers for third baseman Ryan McMahon, right-hander Germán Márquez and reliever Jake Bird, among others, according to a source briefed on the club's plans. More open-minded, though, is not good enough. The Rockies need to be completely open-minded, willing to trade anyone and everyone. Such is not the case, the source said. The Rockies remain unwilling to move younger players such as Dollander, shortstop Ezequiel Tovar and center fielder Brenton Doyle; right-hander Ryan Feltner and relievers Seth Halvorsen and Zach Agnos. Tovar, signed through at least 2030, might be a building block. Doyle might be, too. But goodness gracious, the Rockies are only (14-36) under Schaeffer after going 7-33 under Black. If some team wants to give up a monster package for Dollander, whom the Rockies optioned to Triple A on Monday, why not listen? Neither the team's major-league roster nor farm system is teeming with talent. After a crushing 2024 in which many Colorado prospects either were injured or underperformed, Law recently rated the system 23rd out of 30. If the Rockies don't want to make like the Nationals and remove Schmidt immediately, OK. But it's not enough for Dick Monfort simply to recognize that change is necessary. He needs to pick the right head of baseball operations, then empower that person to overhaul the organization. Anything short of that, to borrow one of Monfort's favorite words, would be ludicrosity. (Top photo of Schmidt with Rockies infielder Kyle Farmer: AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Yahoo
07-07-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Rockies rumors: Bud Black could return, with a catch
The post Rockies rumors: Bud Black could return, with a catch appeared first on ClutchPoints. The Colorado Rockies are mired in a disaster of a season. Colorado is on pace to set a MLB record for the most losses in a campaign. While the team parted ways with their former manager Bud Black, it seems Black may not be done with the team. Black is a possible candidate to work as the team's director of pitching, per USA Today. Advertisement 'Black, a former pitching coach for Mike Scioscia with the Angels, has let friends know he has no interest in retiring and wants to remain in the game,' Bob Nightengale wrote for the outlet. Colorado is expected to lose their current director of pitching, Steve Foster. Foster is headed to the college level to work as pitching coach at Texas Tech. Before being fired as manager, Black had been with the Rockies for eight seasons at the position. Colorado is 17-60 on the year. The Rockies are in total rebuild mode The Rockies are the worst team in baseball this season. It doesn't help that they are also in probably the toughest division, the National League West. The NL West is home to four other teams who all have winning records, including the World Series champion L.A. Dodgers. Advertisement Colorado is currently managed by Warren Schaeffer, who is making the best of the situation. His club has won five of their last 10 games. His goal at this point is likely to just make sure the club doesn't lose more than 120 games, like the Chicago White Sox did last season. 'I know these are hard times. I understand that, but I know there are a lot of guys in that clubhouse who believe in the process and believe that we are going to march forward, get through this thing and come out the other end and start winning games by putting a good culture together,' Schaeffer said in May, per the Denver Gazette. Colorado plays the Arizona Diamondbacks on Sunday. Related: 3 Rockies who must be on trade block ahead of 2025 deadline Related: Rockies' Hunter Goodman reveals pregame change that sparked hot streak
Daily Mail
30-06-2025
- Sport
- Daily Mail
MLB star and his manager ejected in quick succession after heated showdown with umpire
Umpire Ramon de Jesus appeared to have zero interest in hearing arguments on balls and strikes in a Sunday afternoon game between the Colorado Rockies and the Milwaukee Brewers. In the top of the third in the game played in Wisconsin, Rockies batter Tyler Freeman passed on the chance to swing on an 0-2 pitch from Brewers starter Chad Patrick. The ball appeared to clip the lower part of the zone, but mostly stayed below the established rectangle and bounced out of catcher William Contreras' glove. Nevertheless, de Jesus rang up Freeman on a called third strike and sent the right fielder into a state. Freeman slumped in disbelief before turning and angrily yelling at de Jesus for a brief second before turning to walk back to the dugout. Having seemingly heard enough, de Jesus almost instantly tossed Freeman from the game - causing the outfielder to have another shocked reaction. Tyler Freeman ejected and... Warren Schaeffer — Bobby (@welcomeMLB) June 29, 2025 Schaeffer even got down on his knees to show de Jesus how low his third strike call was Out of the dugout came a sprinting manager Warren Schaeffer, who angrily took out his chewing gum and threw it on the ground before continuing on with his rant at de Jesus. When Schaeffer slammed his hat to the dirt, the umpire tossed him as well. A still red-hot Schaeffer then got on his knees to seemingly show de Jesus how low the pitch was. After a seemingly more composed conversation, both Schaeffer and Freeman headed back to the dugout and down the tunnel to the clubhouse. According to the umpire tracking website UmpScorecards, de Jesus is relatively average when it comes to call accuracy and a metric determining the difference between actual correct calls and expected correct calls. The struggling Rockies, who have yet to hit 20 wins on the season as the calendar flips to July, won their 19th of the season in a 4-3 victory in eleven innings. The win helped prevent a sweep in the series after losing 10-6 and 5-0 earlier in the weekend.
