{"id":528652,"date":"2026-01-20T04:03:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T04:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/528652\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T04:03:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T04:03:14","slug":"purple-row-after-dark-thoughts-on-the-rockies-new-and-improved-front-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/528652\/","title":{"rendered":"Purple Row After Dark: Thoughts on the Rockies\u2019 new-and-improved front office?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Late Friday, we learned that the Rockies made another addition to their front office staff, Chad MacDonald. (Read Thomas Harding\u2019s write up <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=1025X1734621&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mlb.com%2Fnews%2Fchad-macdonald-joins-rockies-front-office%3Fadobe_mc%3DTS%253D1768612299%257CMCMID%253D26908798391261771326919950498501281325%257CMCORGID%253DA65F776A5245B01B0A490D44%2540AdobeOrg%26affiliateId%3Dmlbapp-android_webview%26rsid%3Dmlbat.bat.android%26theme%3Dlight\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">MacDonald joins the Rockies as special assistant, player personnel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Rockies have made significant additions this offseason in terms of their front office personnel. (Read about some of those additions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purplerow.com\/colorado-rockies-news\/77930\/rockies-to-hire-ian-levin-as-assistant-general-manager\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purplerow.com\/colorado-rockies-news\/77793\/colorado-rockies-news-rockies-to-hire-tommy-tanous-as-assistant-general-manager\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purplerow.com\/colorado-rockies-news\/77482\/according-to-reports-josh-byrnes-is-rockies-new-gm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">So, here\u2019s tonight\u2019s question: We\u2019ve talked about some of the player changes, but what are your thoughts on the new front office staff?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Late Friday, we learned that the Rockies made another addition to their front office staff, Chad MacDonald. (Read&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2405],"tags":[5,167,52,4316,4,12123,168],"class_list":{"0":"post-528652","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-colorado-rockies","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-colorado","10":"tag-colorado-rockies","11":"tag-coloradorockies","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-purple-row-community","14":"tag-rockies"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115925444616208557","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}