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Rockies part company with GM Bridich

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Build a winner at Coors Field? Here's how the Colorado Rockies' next GM can do it -- if the owner lets them play Story caps off grand slam with epic bat flip (0:35) Trevor Story gets a hold of a 433-foot grand slam and shows off with a savage bat flip. (0:35) Dick Monfort, whose family made its fortune in the cattle business, knows more about B.S. than anyone in baseball. For more than two decades, Monfort has been peddling a particular kind to the fans of the Colorado Rockies, the team he owns and runs. It goes something like this: The Rockies, under the stewardship of Monfort, want to win.

The phrasing of the Colorado Rockies' April 26 announcement about the exit of general manager/executive vice president Jeff Bridich — the statement notes that the team and the GM "mutually agreed that Bridich will step down from his role, effective immediately" — could not have been less satisfying. Long-suffering fans deserved something more along the lines of "Bridich was frog-marched out of his office in shame" or "Bridich raced from the building screaming, as if he'd just noticed that he was on a sinking ship and the last lifeboat was nearly filled with rats." Sometimes when a team go...

68 days since pitchers and catchers reported to spring training. 26 days since Opening Day. One day since Jeff Bridich resigned as general manager of the Rockies. Bridich’s resignation, less than a month into the 2021 season, is a signifying moment that enough was enough. Something boiled over so far that Bridich stepped away just 21 games into the 2021 season. His resignation ends 17 consecutive years of franchise loyalty in an immediate act of severed ties when he could have surely stepped aside last offseason. Why not bail before Arenado was shipped to St. Louis? Bridich was a continual ...