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On Monday, Bill Schimdt was named the interim general manager of the Colorado Rockies. The hiring is quite sensible and should provide stability to the Colorado front office, however the long term plan is to hire a permanent GM this coming offseason.
The Schimdt hiring is the right first step, however the real test will be taken when a new front office executive is named after the season. This hiring will be critical for the Rockies, as the organization’s success and reputation has fallen precipitously since back-to-back playoff runs in 2017 and 2018. When a new head of the baseball hivemind is in place, the Rockies could have the opportunity to start fresh and begin working their way back to relevancy in the National League.
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As the Rockies community has just experienced, things can change quickly. Seeing a team that lacks identity and doesn’t really have a clear path forward, there could be many more changes before the 2021 season starts and up until the trade deadline. So all we can do is look at what we have right now, knowing that everything could change again.
As Dick Monfort explained in last Tuesday’s press conference, Nolan Arenado wanted out and so they traded him. When a reporter asked if Arenado said he would opt out of his contract at the end of 2021 if he didn’t get that trade, Monfort said, “To be quite honest, in all our conversations with him, he never said it was this or that or whatever. We had the choice of waiting until the end of the year and letting him opt out … but the result was the same. So in dealing with this, we tried to find a way to get the greatest return possible.”