After six months and 162 games, the 2025 Colorado Rockies season has ended at last.
The end comes as a mercy to Rockies fans, as they watched their team stumble into new and exciting depths of awfulness. At 43-119, their final record ties the 2003 Detroit Tigers for most losses in a 162-game season. With a -424 run differential, the Rockies were outscored more than any other team in the modern era. The rotation was awful, the offense was often anemic, and overall the team found itself in the history
books for a multitude of dubious reasons despite avoiding the one big milestone.
The 2025 season caps off the Rockies’ third straight campaign of 100 or more losses. Their 323 losses over the last three seasons is the most of any National League club outside of their first three years of existence according to Just Baseball’s Patrick Lyons. Only the Chicago White Sox in the same period of time have more losses, and even then they have just one more.
Today—the first Monday of the Rockies’ off-season—needs to be a day of reckoning. No major announcement being made by the end of the day would be a cause for concern, much like last season when more than a week of agonizing silence was punctuated by the announcement of Bud Black’s extension.
The Rockies need to be both quick and deliberate in all of their actions moving forward… something they haven’t been great at doing. They retained general manager Bill Schmidt for the entire season while the Washington Nationals, fellow basement dwellers, cleaned house prior to the trade deadline.
Now the Nationals are rumored to have already chosen their new head of baseball operations. 35-year-old Paul Toboni has been the assistant general manager for the Boston Red Sox over the last two seasons, overseeing a rising and talented young roster that will be playing post-season baseball.
The Rockies probably should have made their own move earlier, but ripping the bandage off right as the off-season starts is the best possible course of action. It would not only show a true willingness to make changes, but it would also give them the full off-season to begin a ground-up rebuild.
“I’m not sure what they are waiting for,” a rival executive told ESPN. “What’s the point in waiting? You’ve had a chance to get this started. We’re five weeks from the end of the World Series, when you’re supposed to be ready to acquire players. If you had started turning this over in August, then you’d have somebody hired and that person would be able to get people in place, and that’d give you time to start [developing] a new process.”
The biggest change the Rockies have made this season outside of firing manager Bud Black was the promotion of one of Dick Monfort’s sons into a more prominent role.
So far, new executive vice president Walker Monfort has said all the right things.
“When we’ve had a season like we’ve had, after two 100-loss seasons, it gives you an opportunity to look in the mirror,” Walker Monfort said. The Rockies have to evaluate their systems, their resources, their organization, he added. “We’re willing to look at all of that.”
But this would hardly be the first time someone in a position of power with the Rockies has said all the right things only for the team to fall farther and farther into the abyss.
It also wouldn’t be the first time even this season that a voice within the organization recognized the need for change and an in-depth evaluation of the team’s failures.
“We have to look at all processes that we do organizationally — and my position is one of them of course — and we have to honestly look in the mirror and determine what works and what doesn’t and whatever doesn’t work, we need to fix it, and we need to honestly evaluate ourselves,” said manager Warren Schaeffer, for whom the future is in question. “That’s really the only way to move forward.”
The difference now is that the Rockies need to actually make good on those words.
A good first step—outside of any firings that should be coming this afternoon—would be some honest-to-goodness transparency. The Rockies have not had a post-game press conference from the ownership and front office in several years. The insular organization holds their secrets close to the chest and rarely lets the fan in on what might be happening.
That needs to change. Walker Monfort—should he be the one taking the reigns of the organization now—needs to make himself heard sooner rather than later. He needs to tell the media—and most importantly the fans—what is going on, what the issues he sees are, and what exactly he intends to do to fix them.
Taking that first step would be an enormous sign of goodwill towards a dwindling fanbase. The Rockies averaged their fewest fans at the ballpark since 2007, and many of those that did show up were there to support the other team.
“The [attendance issue] doesn’t bug me as much as it motivates me, Walker Monfort told ESPN. ”I know that if the roles were reversed, it would be 80/85 percent Rockies fans here. And so, our goal is to reverse those roles, turn this team into a winning ballclub, a competitive year-in-and-year-out ballclub.”
Once again, the Monfort scion is saying the right things. It now falls upon him to back his words up with action, and the time do so so is right now. Today.
If he does, and if the Rockies can actually commit to full-scale organizational change, then I could proudly say this to them:
Congratulations, Colorado Rockies. Today could be the first day of the rest of your life.
Rockies planning to utilize Senzatela as reliever in ‘26 | MLB.com
Following Sunday’s season finale, interim manager Warren Schaeffer indicated that Antonio Senzatela would continue to work out of the bullpen next season. Senzatela was moved to the bullpen from the rotation after a brutal season, but did show legitimate improvement in a relief role. In 21 innings he posted a 3.00 ERA with both a better WHIP and more strikeouts per nine innings.
Rockies confident in future behind the plate with Goodman’s success | MLB.com
This time last season there were many question marks revolving around who would be the Rockies’ franchise catcher of the future. However, the answer that emerged this season was a surprising one. After an All-Stat campaign and a season in which he was by far the Rockies’ most valuable player, Hunter Goodman appears to be the future.
He has done it well, his body has held up,” Warren Schaffer said. “So, now it’s about pushing him. How much can you push him next year to play? It wouldn’t surprise me at all if he hit 40 to 45 [homers].”
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