Rockies Fire Manager Bud Black, Bench Coach Mike Redmond

Bud Black managing the Rockies and Mike Redmond coaching the Rockies during the 2017 NL Wild Card Game

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May 11, 2025

Rockies Fire Manager Bud Black, Bench Coach Mike Redmond

The reeling Colorado Rockies have fired manager Bud Black and bench coach Mike Redmond, the team announced Sunday via press release. Current third base coach and infield coach Warren Schaeffer will be the interim manager for the remainder of the 2025 season, with current hitting coach (and former manager) Clint Hurdle serving as interim bench coach.

This comes on the heels of a 21–0 home loss to the San Diego Padres Saturday afternoon, one that knocked the Rockies to a major-league worst 6–33 record. Their .154 winning percentage after 39 games ties the 1988 Baltimore Orioles for the worst in the Modern Era (1901 to present). The ’88 Orioles ultimately finished the season 54–107.

Black, 67, ends his tenure of eight-plus years with the most wins (543) in the franchise’s history, one that began play in 1993. The Rockies made the playoffs each of Black’s first two seasons, finishing one game away from the franchise’s first-ever division title in 2018 after losing the single-game tiebreaker to the Los Angeles Dodgers. However, since those two seasons, the Rockies did not have a winning record again. They finished the next three seasons in fourth place and the following four in fifth out of the five-team NL West.

A Woeful Multi-Year Stretch

In 2023, the Rockies lost 103 games, the first Rockies team to ever lose 100 games in a season. They lost 100 games again in 2024, dropping 101, but 2025 is on pace to be even worse. In fact, it is on pace to have more losses than the 2024 Chicago White Sox, who set a major-league record with 121 losses and surpassed the infamously futile expansion 1962 New York Mets (40–120). The Rockies entered Sunday having scored the second-fewest runs in the majors — 124, leading only the Pittsburgh Pirates, who have 123. They also have the highest ERA in the majors, with 5.89, and have allowed at least eight runs in five consecutive games and at least 10 runs in four straight. Both are the longest such streaks in franchise history, with the 10-run streak tying the longest in the majors since splitting to three divisions in 1994.

“Our play so far this season, especially coming off the last two seasons, has been unacceptable. Our fans deserve better, and we are capable of better,” said Rockies Owner, Chairman, and CEO Dick Monfort in the press release. “While we all share responsibility in how this season has played out, these changes are necessary. We will use the remainder of 2025 to improve where we can on the field and to evaluate all areas of our operation so we can properly turn the page into the next chapter of Rockies Baseball.

“I want to thank Bud Black and Mike Redmond for their contributions to the organization across their eight years here. I appreciate their hard work and dedication and wish them nothing but the best going forward.”

Interim Manager Warren Schaeffer

Schaeffer, 40, became the Rockies third base coach and infield coach in 2023. He spent the previous 10 seasons managing and coaching in the Rockies farm system. From 2015 to 2022, he managed at three separate levels: the then-Class A Asheville (NC) Tourists, 2015–2017; the Double-A Hartford Yard Goats, 2018–2019; and the Triple-A Albuquerque Isotopes, 2020–2022. The 2020 season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

“I believe that Warren is the right person to lead us forward for the remainder of this season, develop our young talent at the Major League level and get our club back to playing a better brand of baseball,” General Manager Bill Schmidt said in the press release. “He has a great ability to connect with both veterans and young players and is an excellent communicator.

“Clint will remain focused on helping our players offensively and will continue to assist Warren and our players as an experienced voice within our clubhouse.”

Looking Ahead

The Rockies are either last or next-to-last in the National League in virtually every meaningful offensive category, including batting average, on-base percentage, slugging percentage, and OPS+. For a team that plays in Denver’s famously hitter-friendly Coors Field to do so is shocking.

Schaeffer will have his work cut out for him, given not only the team’s performance in recent years but also its presence in the NL West gauntlet. The other four teams in the division — the San Diego Padres, the Los Angeles Dodgers, the San Francisco Giants, and the Arizona Diamondbacks — each have at least 20 wins. Additionally, the Padres, Dodgers, and Giants have three of the five best records in the majors.