Despite a third consecutive season of finishing in the cellar, the Colorado Rockies are standing pat in the manager’s chair.
The Rockies made the announcement on Tuesday that Bud Black will be returning to manage the team in 2025. Black’s contract with the team was up, but Colorado is now giving him a new one-year extension.
Black, 67, has been the manager of the Rockies since 2017, going 537-657 (.477) overall with two total playoff appearances. Prior to that, Black won a World Series as the pitching coach of the then-Anaheim Angels in 2002 and then went on to manage the San Diego Padres, winning the NL Manager of the Year Award in 2010.
The sledding has gotten really rough for Black and the Rockies over the last few years though as they have now posted three straight fifth-place finishes in the NL West. This season, Colorado went 61-101 (.377), marking their second consecutive year with 100 or more losses.
But Black, third among active managers with 1,186 career wins, is not the problem in Colorado as he is consistently forced to work with pitiful rosters (Ryan McMahon, a .242 hitter, was the Rockies’ only All-Star this year). The issues with the team run much deeper as one former Rockies pitcher alluded to after leaving the team.
