The World Series starts tonight. Soon the baseball world will have answers to many questions:
- Can money really buy championships (aka $700 million for Shohei Ohtani, $325 million for Yoshinobu Yamamoto $325 million, spending $400 million more after winning the World Series last year, etc.)?
- Are the Dodgers a budding dynasty?
- Can Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and George Springer continue to put on a show against Blake Snell and the rest of the Dodgers rotation?
- Will a Canadian team win the crown for America’s pastime?
As the series moves to Game 7, we’ll have answers to all of these questions on November 1. If the series doesn’t last that long, we might even know sooner.
At that point, the offseason officially begins and the focus will shift to general manager meetings in Las Vegas from November 10 to 13.
In other words, the Colorado Rockies are on the clock. They need to hire a general manager/president of baseball operations and finalize their coaching staff as quickly as possible so that the pieces are in place to start building the new blueprint for the franchise.
They need to start answering the big questions going into 2026:
- Who makes the decisions in the front office?
- How much freedom will the GM/PBO have?
- Who will be the administrator?
- What will the coaching staff look like?
- As for the selection: who stays, who goes and who will be new faces?
While there have been several changes in the Rockies front office and coaching staff this season and so far this season, the big picks remain.
Purple Row’s Evan Lang posted the latest updates during the front office shakeup on Wednesday evening, announcing the departure of pitching coach Darryl Scott and the Athletics reported that the Colorado Rockies moved closer to selecting their next head of baseball operations by narrowing their list to Arizona’s Amiel Sawdaye and Cleveland’s Matt Forman. However, there may be other finalists.
After so many losses over the past six years, cleaning the house and rebuilding were the only options. Even though it’s been a slow trickle of “resignation,” “parting ways” and “will not return,” as opposed to the traditional verbiage of shooting, with the announcement that Scott won’t be back until 2026, the Rockies are finally starting to make better choices.
To recap: this is what the changes have looked like so far.
The Rockies couldn’t hit, so they fired hitting coach Hensley Meulens on April 17. They couldn’t win because they started with a 7–33 record, so they fired manager Bud Black and bench coach Mike Redmond on May 11.
The Rockies could not field, develop or field a competitive team, so General Manager Bill Schmidt left on October 1. A week later, Rockies vice president and assistant general manager of baseball operations Zack Rosenthal resigned.
Considering that the Rockies pitching staff has been in a downward spiral for at least five years as good pitchers struggled and promising prospects failed to flourish, it was baffling that Scott — who had coached in the Colorado system since 2009 and served as MLB’s pitching coach since 2021 — took so long to “not return.” At least, it eventually happened.
However, the slow moves have the Rockies already behind this offseason. With the Nationals hiring Paul Toboni as their new president of baseball operations in late September, Colorado is the only team still without a GM/PBO for 2026.
As of Oct. 23, the Rockies are one of six teams that have yet to hire a manager, along with the Padres, Orioles, Twins, Braves and Nationals. The Rangers hired veteran skipper Skip Schumaker on October 10. This week, the Angels hired former catcher Kurt Suzuki and the Giants hired Tony Vitello from the University of Tennessee.
While making the right choice is crucial to the future of the organization, the Rockies need to pull the trigger on the GM/PBO pick quickly. It will take some time for the new person to get his vision in order, decide whether or not Warren Schaffer will lose his interim tag, and start leading the cleanup operations in the organization. When it comes to helping define a new direction and build a team identity that leads to a better future, there is no time to waste.
Salt River Rafters 16, Glendale Desert Dogs 6
Jared Thomas (No. 8 PuRP) went 3-for-6 with an RBI and two stolen bases, Charlie Condon (No. 2 PuRP) walked twice and scored two runs and Braylen Wimmer (No. 38 PuRP) went 2-for-5 and scored two more runs as the Rockies prospects continued to come up big offensively for Salt River. The two Rockies pitchers also had solid performances. Jack Mahoney posted his first AFL hold by giving up one run in four innings on four hits and two walks with two strikeouts. Welinton Herrera closed the game with a scoreless frame in the ninth when he gave up one walk, but it did no damage.
Rockies’ Condon reaches new heights with five strokes in Arizona Fall League | MLB.com
Rockies prospect Charlie Condon is tearing up the Arizona Fall League. He scored five goals in Wednesday’s 14-1 win over Mesa, setting a record for most goals in a game this season and marking the first time he has reached the milestone in his professional career.
The 6 biggest takeaways from the Rockies’ 2025 season | Just baseball
Patrick Lyons recaps the season and examines the good, the bad and the ugly. It’s useful insight into the breakdown of where the team has been, how it went so wrong, and how it can be improved in the future.
Ranking the best World Series matchups since 2000 | ESPN.com
A rare World Series article that mentions the Rockies lists all the MLB title showdowns of the past 25 years. The Rockies-Red Sox matchup in 2007 didn’t go so well.
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