To be honest, one thing did change in these 24 hours, and that change was a fully humiliating 21-0 loss on Saturday night time simply after the GM went to bat for his supervisor. That loss dropped the Rockies to 6-33 and continued what has been one of many worst begins within the historical past of Main League Baseball.
That form of loss, in this sort of season, goes to get some consideration and doubtless lead to some form of a change.
It did.
However the harsh actuality for the Rockies is firing Black just isn’t the form of change that’s going to repair something in a significant method. Simply because it was with the Pittsburgh Pirates and Derek Shelton earlier this week, firing the supervisor is nothing greater than window dressing for a bumbling, incompetent franchise.
It is saying to the general public, “Nicely, we needed to do one thing, and this was in all probability the simplest factor to do.”
Whether or not or not Black was doing a foul job is a small potatoes query while you have a look at the larger image scenario that’s the Rockies group.
That image is ugly. The roster stinks, the possession has not proven a lot of a dedication to profitable and the staff is already coming off back-to-back 100-loss seasons, which adopted a 94-loss season. Except one thing dramatically adjustments within the subsequent few months, that is going to be a 3rd consecutive 100-loss season and maybe one which shatters the most important league file for futility.
No supervisor is that unhealthy.
No discipline supervisor is accountable for that degree of dropping.
That may be a drawback that goes far past and much above anyone particular person within the dugout. There isn’t a lineup order, no bullpen utilization and no situational name that’s going to show that form of staff into one thing aggressive.
The Rockies needed to do one thing. They needed to make anyone the autumn man simply to maintain up appearances that they’re attempting one thing. However firing Black is nothing greater than that form of transfer.
Warren Schaeffer will take over an interim foundation, and the outcomes won’t dramatically change this season.
They are going to rent anyone new on a everlasting foundation this offseason who will are available in and discuss altering the tradition, taking part in the proper method, establishing an id and constructing one thing.
It’s going to sound good. It’s going to make for excellent quotes and soundbites. However so long as Dick Monfort retains working the staff the way in which he has lately, and so long as the roster retains wanting like a Triple-A group of expertise, none of it will matter.
Black took the autumn for this mess. However he’s not the one who brought on it.
