Rockies hire Josh Byrnes as general manager

Byrnes will team again with Paul DePodesta, who was hired Nov. 7 as the Rockies’ president of baseball operations.

DENVER — The Colorado Rockies are bringing Josh Byrnes back to Denver to become the team’s general manager, sources confirmed to 9NEWS on Wednesday.

Byrnes will team again with Paul DePodesta, who was hired Nov. 7 as the Rockies’ president of baseball operations. The two joined forces in Cleveland in the 1990s, before DePodesta went to the Oakland Athletics and Byrnes joined the Rockies to work with then-GM Dan O’Dowd. Byrnes was assistant GM to O’Dowd from 1999 to 2002.

Byrnes will try to turn around a franchise that’s coming off a third straight 100-loss season. He’s fresh off winning a World Series with the Los Angeles Dodgers for a second straight season. He also was with the Dodgers when they won in 2020.

Byrnes knows the National League West well, having also been in the front offices with the Arizona Diamondbacks and the San Diego Padres. He broke into the business as an advanced scout in Cleveland. Byrnes was with Boston as an assistant GM when the Red Sox won the World Series in 2004.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.