Rockies dismiss GM Schmidt after 119-loss season

DENVER -- The Colorado Rockies announced Wednesday that wide manager Bill Schmidt volition not instrumentality aft 1 of the worst seasons successful shot history.

A hunt is underway for his replacement.

Schmidt has been with the enactment since 1999, including the past 4 seasons arsenic wide manager. The Rockies turned successful their 3rd consecutive 100-loss play arsenic they missed the postseason for a seventh twelvemonth successful a row.

The Rockies finished 43-119, narrowly avoiding the favoritism of being worst squad since shot adopted a 162-game docket successful 1961. The people inactive belongs to the 2024 Chicago White Sox (41-121).

"We are mounting our sights connected uncovering the close person from extracurricular our enactment who tin bring a caller position to the Rockies and heighten our shot operations with a caller vision, innovation, and a absorption connected some abbreviated and semipermanent success," Walker Monfort, the team's enforcement vice president and the lad proprietor Dick Monfort, said successful a statement. "This alteration delivers an accidental to signifier the aboriginal of our nine and determination guardant into a caller epoch of Rockies baseball."

Schmidt primitively joined the Rockies connected Oct. 1, 1999, arsenic the manager of scouting. He steadily has worked his mode up the ranks until being hired arsenic the 4th GM successful squad past successful 2021.

"After a fig of conversations, we decided it is clip for maine to measurement speech and marque mode for a caller dependable to usher the club's shot operations," Schmidt said successful a statement. "Better seasons are up for the Rockies and our large fans, and I look guardant to seeing it travel to beingness successful the years ahead."

The caller GM volition marque a determination connected the managerial role. Warren Schaeffer has been the interim manager since stepping into the presumption erstwhile Bud Black was fired successful May. He went 36-86 successful a play that went sideways from the start.

The Rockies boast a young nucleus, but determination are plentifulness of areas to enactment up. They finished with a differential of minus-424, the worst since 1900, surpassing the minus-349 of the 1932 Boston Red Sox.

The starting rotation turned successful a 6.65 ERA, the highest people since it became an authoritative stat successful some leagues successful 1913.

Dick Monfort said of the front-office change: "A caller dependable volition payment our enactment arsenic we enactment towards giving our fans the competitory squad they deserve."