Rockies dismiss manager Bud Black amid bad start to 2025 season

The Colorado Rockies became the 2nd squad wrong a week to marque a alteration successful the dugout amid an abysmal commencement to the 2025 season.

The Rockies announced they parted ways with manager Bud Black and seat manager Mike Redmond. Third basal manager Warren Schaeffer was named interim manager, portion Clint Hurdle was named interim seat coach.

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Colorado Rockies manager Bud Black (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

"Our play truthful acold this season, particularly coming disconnected the past 2 seasons, has been unacceptable," Rockies squad proprietor Dick Monfort said successful a statement. "Our fans merit better, and we are susceptible of better. While we each stock work successful however this play has played out, these changes are necessary.

"We volition usage the remainder of 2025 to amended wherever we tin connected the tract and to measure each areas of our cognition to we tin decently crook the leafage into the adjacent section of Rockies Baseball."

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Colorado Rockies pitcher Jake Bird, right, walks toward the dugout arsenic manager Bud Black, left, makes a pitching alteration during the seventh inning against the Giants successful San Francisco, Saturday, May 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Colorado suffered an embarrassing 21-0 nonaccomplishment to the San Diego Padres. The squad got 1 backmost connected Sunday, 9-3. It was lone their seventh triumph of the play successful 40 games. Opposing teams person had a tract time against the Rockies. The team’s tally differential is -128. Colorado has lone scored 133 runs this season.

The Rockies person not made the playoffs since the 2018 season. It was besides the past clip the squad finished implicit .500. Colorado was 61-101 past play aft going 59-103 successful 2023.

Black took implicit arsenic manager successful 2017. He was 544-690 successful much than 8 years astatine the helm.

Colorado Rockies manager Bud Black paces successful the dugout successful the archetypal inning against the San Diego Padres, Saturday, May 10, 2025, successful Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

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The Rockies were the 2nd squad to occurrence their manager wrong the past 7 days. The Pirates fired Derek Shelton earlier successful the week.

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