Tonight, the World Series begins. Soon, the baseball world will have answers to many questions:
- Does money really buy championships (aka $700 million to Shohei Ohtani, $325 million to Yoshinobu Yamamoto $325 million, spending $400 million more after winning the World Series last year, etc.)?
- Are the Dodgers a budding dynasty?
- Can Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and George Springer continue to put on a show against Blake Snell and the rest of the Dodgers rotation?
- Will a Canadian team win the crown for America’s pastime?
If the series goes to Game 7, we’ll have answers to all these questions by Nov. 1. If the series doesn’t go as
long, we may know even sooner.
At that point, the offseason officially begins and the focus will shift to general manager meetings in Las Vegas Nov. 10-13.
In other words, the Colorado Rockies are on the clock. They need to hire a general manager/president of baseball operations and finalize their coaching staff sooner rather than later to have the pieces in place to start building the new blueprint for the franchise.
They need to start answering the big questions going into 2026:
- Who will make the decisions in the front office?
- How much freedom will the GM/PBO have?
- Who will be the manager?
- What will the coaching staff look like?
- In terms of the roster, who stays, who goes, and who will be new faces?
While there have been several changes this season and so far this offseason in the Rockies front office and in the coaching staff, the big choices remain.
Purple Row’s Evan Lang posted the latest updates in the front office shakeup on Wednesday night, recapping pitching coach Darryl Scott’s departure and the Athletic’s reporting that the Colorado Rockies were getting closer to selecting their next head of baseball operations in narrowing their list to Arizona’s Amiel Sawdaye and Cleveland’s Matt Forman. However, there still could be other finalists.
After so much losing over the last six years, cleaning house and rebuilding were the only options. Even though it’s been a slow drip of “resignations,” “mutually parting of ways,” and “will not returns,” as opposed to the traditional verbiage of firing, with the announcement that Scott won’t be back for 2026, the Rockies are finally starting to make better choices.
Just to recap, here’s what the changes have looked like so far.
The Rockies couldn’t hit, so they fired hitting coach Hensley Meulens on April 17. They couldn’t win as they started off with a 7-33 record, so they fired manager Bud Black and bench coach Mike Redmond on May 11.
The Rockies couldn’t draft, or develop, or field a competitive team, so GM Bill Schmidt hit the road on Oct. 1. A week later, Rockies vice president and assistant general manager of baseball operations Zack Rosenthal resigned.
Considering the Rockies pitching staff has been on a downward spiral for at least five years, as once good pitchers struggled and promising prospects failed to thrive, it was mind-boggling that Scott — who coached in the Colorado system since 2009 and was the MLB pitching coach since 2021 — took this long to “not return.” At least, it finally happened.
However, the slow moves mean the Rockies are already behind this offseason. With the Nationals having hired Paul Toboni as their new president of baseball operations at the end of September, Colorado is the only team still without a GM/PBO going into 2026.
As of Oct. 23, the Rockies are one of six teams that have yet to hire a manager, joined by the Padres, Orioles, Twins, Braves and Nationals. The Rangers hired veteran skipper Skip Schumaker on Oct. 10. This week, the Angels hired former catcher Kurt Suzuki and the Giants hired Tony Vitello from the University of Tennessee.
While making the right choice is pivotal for the organization’s future, the Rockies have to pull the trigger on the GM/PBO choice quickly. It will take time for the new person to get their vision in place, decide on whether or not Warren Schaffer will lose his interim tag, and begin leading the clean-up operations in the organization. When it comes to helping provide a new direction and building a team identity that leads to a better future, there is no time to waste.
Arizona Fall League
Salt River Rafters 16, Glendale Desert Dogs 6
Jared Thomas (no. 8 PuRP) went 3-for-6 with an RBI and two stolen bases, Charlie Condon (no. 2 PuRP) walked twice and scored two runs and Braylen Wimmer (no. 38 PuRP) went 2-for-5 and scored two more runs as the Rockies prospects continued to come up big offensively for Salt River. The two Rockies pitching prospects also recorded solid performances. Jack Mahoney posted his first AFL hold in giving up one run in four innings on four hits and two walks with two strikeouts. Welinton Herrera closed out the game with a scoreless frame in the ninth when he gave up one walk, but it didn’t do any damage.
Rockies’ Condon hits new heights with five knocks in Arizona Fall League | MLB.com
Rockies prospect Charlie Condon is tearing up the Arizona Fall League. He connected for five hits in Wednesday’s 14-1 victory over Mesa, setting a record for most hits in a game this season and marking his first time hitting the milestone in his professional career.
The 6 Biggest Takeaways From the Rockies’ 2025 season | Just Baseball
Patrick Lyons sums up the season, examining the good, the bad and the ugly. It’s helpful insight in the dissection of where the team has been, how it went so wrong and how to improve in the future.
Ranking the best World Series matchups since 2000 | ESPN.com
In a rare article about the World Series that mentions the Rockies, this one ranks all the MLB title showdowns of the last 25 years. The Rockies-Red Sox matchup in 2007 didn’t fare so well.
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