Tag: Dick Monfort

Rockies plan to cut payroll after losing 100 games again

The Rockies’ decisions are emblematic of a deeper issue in MLB.

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In 2021, the Rockies last 87 games. In 2022, they dropped 94. The 2023 season saw them take the L 103 times, and in 2024, they improved their record for the first time since the pandemic-shortened 2020 forced them to lose fewer games than they had the prior year, by losing “just” 101. Oh, right, and in 2019, before that 60-game season, Colorado lost 91 games. Don’t worry, in 2020, they were still on pace for 92 defeats, this was an unbroken string of failure.

How do the Rockies plan on fixing things for 2025? They’re once again hoping their youth movement does the trick, and also, they’re planning to cut payroll again. And this goes beyond just not spending the money that the end of Charlie Blackmon’s career frees up, as well, according to Patrick Saunders of the Denver Post. They’ll be attempting to trade late-stage arbitration-eligible players to free up additional salary, players like Brendan Rogers, Cal Quantrill, and Austin Gomber.

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The Rockies and Marlins are bad, too

Woof, again.

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The White Sox got my full attention on Wednesday because they are simply that bad — like, angling for historically awful if they keep it up for too long, they’re one of four teams ever to lose 22 of their first 25 contests and help does not appear to be in sight for a team we already knew would be terrible — but they’re not the only horrid team in the league this year.

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Dick Monfort is good for a laugh, at least

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The owners of Major League Baseball’s 30 teams are quite the bunch, in the sense that the vast majority of them are capable of doing or saying something that will either raise my blood pressure or get me to start giggling at how much of a dingus they are. Rockies’ owner Dick Monfort could very well be king dingus in this group: a man who has won nothing ever, and yet is so publicly sure that the way he’s doing things is the right way. And to the point where he’s now openly criticizing the spending of fellow NL West club the Padres, as well as any of the Rockies’ fans who believe that the way San Diego is operating is the right way to go about building a successful team.

From Saturday’s Denver Post:

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Jeff Bridich is gone, but does that mean anything for the Rockies?

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Longtime Rockies’ general manager Jeff Bridich resigned from the position on Monday, less than a month into the 2021 regular season. His exit was a “mutual decision” with Rockies’ higher ups, meaning they told him he was fired but could bow out on his own instead of getting tossed out. Rockies’ owner Dick Monfort finally tiring of Bridich and telling him to go doesn’t mean that there is a major change coming to the organization, of course. Bridich acted the way he did for years because Monfort wanted him to: it is entirely possible that Monfort just needed someone new as general manager so they can restart this whole cycle.

You might remember this line of reasoning from when the Pirates parted with their own longtime GM, Neal Huntington, and their team president, Frank Coonnelly, after the 2019 season. Here’s me on that:

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