Rockies fire manager Bud Black amid one of worst 40-game starts in MLB history

The Colorado Rockies are making a change amid their historically bad start to the 2025 season. Bud Black has been fired as the Rockies’ manager after going 7-33 in his ninth season in Colorado, the team announced Sunday. The team also fired bench coach Mike Redmond.

“Our play so far this season, especially coming off the last two seasons, has been unacceptable,” Rockies owner, chairman and CEO Dick Monfort said in a statement. “Our fans deserve better, and we are capable of better. While we all share this 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.”

Colorado’s 7-33 start is tied for the second-worst 40-game start for a team in MLB history and is the worst mark since 1988. The Rockies actually won on Sunday, defeating the San Diego Padres to avoid tying the 1988 Baltimore Orioles for the worst start.

However, Sunday’s 9-3 win followed a 21-0 loss to the Padres on Saturday, which extended the Rockies’ losing streak to eight games at the time as they also pitched a position player for the second time in three games.

That loss also dropped the Rockies’ win differential to minus-134 on the season. That mark was the second-worst in MLB history, only trailing the 2023 Athletics (minus-146). It is now minus-128.

Black took over as Rockies manager in 2017, helping Colorado reach the postseason in 2018. Since then, the Rockies have mostly become an afterthought in MLB, finishing last in the NL West in each of the last three seasons. The Rockies went 544-690 in Black’s nine seasons as manager.

“I want to thank Bud Black and Mike Redmond for their contributions to the organization across their eight years here,” Monfort continued in his statement. “I appreciate their hard work and their dedication and wish them nothing but the best moving forward.”

This is a developing story. 

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