On Friday night the Colorado Rockies took on the Los Angeles Angels at Coors Field to start their final home series of a long, miserable 2025 season.
The Rockies ended up earning a come from behind victory, 7-6, before the skies were lit up with post-game fireworks in appreciation of the fans. The win was also notable because it marked the Rockies’ 42nd victory of 2025. They had avoided tying or surpassing the 2024 Chicago White Sox (41-121) for the worst 162-game record in the history of Major League
Baseball.
Avoiding that particular landmark has been on the minds of the Rockies and their fans since they started the season 10-50 through their first 60 games, and with a rough start to the month of September—and some difficult opponents to face through the end of the season—it wasn’t necessarily a surefire thing they could do so. However, the Rockies kept themselves out of the history books for that particular reason. They even earned a 43rd victory in their final home game of the season.
My question now—and I direct this not only generally, but towards Rockies owner Dick Monfort and his front office—is “so what?”
While many of us breathed a collective sigh of relief at having our team’s name next to that record (and I know those of you who didn’t are out there), it remains icing on a not particularly appetizing cake. The 2025 Colorado Rockies are still one of the worst teams in the modern era for many, many other reasons that will be more exhaustively categorized after the season ends. Even without the worst 162-game record, there was still just so much dubious history made this season.
The Rockies were able to regress to the mean of being just regularly terrible instead of historically awful after the All-Star break. The absolute worst thing that could happen is for Dick Monfort and the Rockies organization to assume that things within the confines of 20th and Blake will improve without swift, severe intervention.
When Walker Monfort was promoted into a more prominent role earlier this season, he exhibited an openness to make changes.
“Ultimately, we’re open to anything, and I think that’s where I want to keep it,” Walker Monfort said in an interview with the Denver Post’s Patrick Saunders. “I think we’re open to whatever it takes to make the Colorado Rockies better. But I would say it’s really about maximizing our resources, right? And if we don’t have the right resources in place, we should figure out a way to get the right resources in place. That’s not just from a staffing perspective, it’s really everything.”
It is time for he and the Rockies to prove it.
The off-season begins for the Rockies next Monday. The very first thing they need do is announce the departure of general manager Bill Schmidt for reasons that have been discussed at length. Paired with that announcement should be the hire of an evaluator and/or a new president of baseball operations from outside the organization.
A common name floated for this role is Thad Levine, the former general manager of the Minnesota Twins that started his lengthy baseball career with Los Angeles Dodgers before working with the Rockies from 1999 to 2005. Another option that recently became available is Matt Silverman. Silverman has been club president for the Tampa Bay Rays since 2005, but recently announced he would be stepping down from that role in wake of the Rays’ sale to a new ownership group.
Patrick Saunders is one of several people who have been championing this kind of move for the Rockies, and he laid out what would be expected of an outside evaluator.
“If the Rockies did hire someone, such as Levine, to review things, I would imagine they would grade personnel in the front office, baseball operations, the coaching staff and the players,” Saunders explained. “They would see how money is spent throughout the organization and examine the analytics department, which one person in the Rockies organization recently told me is ‘a decade behind.’”
With just six games left in the season, the Rockies should be preparing to make this move already. Anyone brought in will need as much time as possible to diagnose the many sicknesses festering within the Rockies organization.
Even after those diagnoses are made, it will still take time for things to get better.
“We want to win games, we want to be in the playoff hunt, we want to be in a division hunt, but we’re not. You can’t snap your fingers and make it happen,” a fan interviewed by the Denver Post aptly put.
After the Rockies players part ways for the final time this season, the organization itself needs to be hard at work. The Rockies need to be feverishly examining any way the team can improve.
The Rockies may have avoided 121 losses this season, but if they refuse to do anything—if they believe things will naturally improve through attrition like they have over the last few seasons—Dick Monfort and his team have another rude awakening in store from them next season. This one might perhaps be even worse.
On the Farm
Triple-A: Reno Aces 3, Albuquerque Isotopes 2 (F/10)
The Isotopes fell in extra innings for their final game of the 2025 minor league season. Albuquerque went down to the Aces early in a mostly well-pitched game by Xzavion Curry and the bullpen. The ‘Topes tied things up in the bottom of the ninth thanks to a Sterlin Thompson two RBI singe, but then went down on three straight strikeouts after coughing up the lead in tenth inning.
Rockies fans frustrated amid 100-loss season, declining attendance | Denver Post ($)
It may not always be apparent, but the Rockies’ attendance is on the decline and fans are upset with the team’s losing ways. Patrick Saunders of the Denver Post spoke with fans around the stadium last week to gauge their emotions as the Rockies season nears it’s end.
‘My home for life’: Márquez emotional in potential final start at Coors | MLB.com
Longtime Rockies pitcher Germán Márquez made what is likely his final start as a Rockie at Coors Field on Saturday. A pending free agent after this season, Márquez was in tears in the dugout following the end of his seven inning Quality Start.
“I was thinking about that the whole game. This is my home. I’ve been here for my whole career. I feel happy. I feel free here. But it’s baseball, and I need to see what’s going to happen.”
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