Does anything the Colorado Rockies do make sense?!

Paul Deep Podest is running the Rockies now. That’s exciting. He must be in nervous having been with the Browns for so long. Cleveland Browns, chief strategy officer. Now he’s running the Colorado Rockies, spending time, newly hired, figuring out the organization, meeting people, going to GM meetings, getting ready for the winter meetings, sitting there every day with his lieutenants, getting to know the scouts, having people from the old days, calling him up, saying, “Give me a job. I want to get back in the game. Let me be your assistant. Let me be a pro scout. Let me do something. I will analyze you.” Well, he made a big decision yesterday and it made me smile. Paul D Podesta and the Colorado Rockies have named Warren Schaefer as their manager. Music, Koka, do we have celebration music? We don’t have anything like we could play. Can’t you hit a button and everyone goes Warren Schaefer, the guy, the interim? Remember when Bud Black and Mike Redmond, our former manager, World Series backup catcher to Budge? that guy, they got fired. You don’t remember that when the Rockies started 7 and 33 and they were going to lose 197 games and the White Socks were going to be a one-year worst and that was it. The Rockies were going to take over and then remember the Rockies didn’t lose 121 and remember the White Sox still have the worst season ever two years ago. Anyone recall this? Warren Schaefer, interim manager. Remember? Well, guess what? Yesterday, Paul Debodesta said, and I quote, “We’re confident Warren is the right person to lead our club moving forward. He has established strong relationships with our players, understands the culture of this franchise, and embodies the energy and work ethic we want on and off the field.” Paul, I thought when you took the job, your first order of business was changing the culture. Isn’t that funny when people say whatever they need to say at that particular moment with reckless disregard for what they said before because there’s zero accountability. When you take a job like that, hey, we want to bring in a winning culture. We want to compete for the World Series year after year after year. We want this, that, and the other. And then you do something. You say, “Hey, we’re going to keep this guy from last year because you have no idea this guy gets us. This guy gets the Rocky’s culture. Paul, you were hired to change the Rocky’s culture. You were hired and you acknowledged that that you wanted to find a way to figure out the Rubik’s Cube that is consistently winning in Colorado. You got the best fan base. You got an amazing stadium. You have amazing weather. You have amazing quality of life. You got amazing everything except victories consistently. I just laugh that that the new president of baseball operations with a statement, not even a press conference, a statement that says what it says. Did anyone read it before releasing it? Did anyone say, “Well, wait a minute, Paul, that would sound strange.” Secondly, when you are new to an organization and Paul D. Podesta was not with the Rockies last year, Paul D. Podesta was not in baseball last year. He hadn’t been in baseball for many years. Paul D. Podesta and Warren Schaefer, do they go way back? Do they grow up together? Because how are you so confident that he’s the right person to lead your club moving forward? I thought that you’re making a whole plan of what you’re doing to move the organization forward. I thought that what happened last year was not acceptable. Not just the seven and 33 start, but the whole package. I thought that was the reason for the change. I thought that was what the Mford brothers were doing. The father, the father, two brothers, and the son of one of the brothers, the triangle of power in Colorado. As they brought in Paul Deep Podesta, do you think the interview went like this? Hey, as long as you like meat and religion, we’re in. Think that’s how the interview went? Hey, Paul, come join us. Just keep doing what we’re doing. I find it to be very very interesting to me that a guy who goes wait for it 50 games under 500. He was 36 and 86. That that’s who you’re going to say you’re confident is the right person to lead our club because of the culture. Understanding it, it’s laughable. The Rockies are being the Rockies. I guess you get what you get when you want what you have.

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9 comments

  5. I forget where I heard it, might have been Rosenthal, but I buy the idea that DePodesta just wants someone familiar with the players and the organization while he takes time to reorient himself in MLB – especially after being hired so late in the cycle. You don't have to keep Schaefer for multiple years, if a better manager comes available next offseason you can go get him. I wouldn't read too much into PR speak, they're never going to announce publicly that Schaefer is a stand-in/lame duck

  6. Honestly, why not. The team is in a rebuild, they're not going anywhere, just keep the guy you have until you get a bunch of good young players at the top of the farm system and the team is ready to break out and win 90-100 games. That's when you hire a manger who's used to winning.

  7. This is such a typical rockies move and has Dick Monfort's fingerprints all over it since yet again they did not even bother to interview anyone from outside the organization. Schaeffer might end up being a good manager for this bunch, since a lack of talent and Monfort's meddling make it a challenge for anyone who wants to win, but at least see what's out there after losing 100+ games three years in a row.

  9. Paul DePodesta is not the moneyball guy. He's the dude that traded for Hee-Seop Choi. Always will be. Hey, at least Choi got to be a non all-star home run debry participant the next year. True story, kids. Look it up.

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