ESPN’s top baseball insider says what the Rockies are doing makes him “sad”

ESPN’s Senior MLB Insider Jeff Passan has seen a lot of baseball in his life, but nothing like what the Colorado Rockies are doing so far in 2025. The Rockies recently became the first team in the modern era to reach the 50-loss threshold before eclipsing 10 wins, just another poor milestone to add to the board this season.

Passan was recently asked about what’s going on at Coors Field, the home of the worst team in baseball, and couldn’t help but feel sorry for the Rockies.

"I look at what's going on with the Rockies and it makes me sad..

They're an organization that's a decade behind right now and it's a shame what's going on with this team..

They're still drawing great crowds to that gorgeous ballpark" ~ @JeffPassan #PMSLive pic.twitter.com/k4UzzETH8N

— Pat McAfee (@PatMcAfeeShow) June 2, 2025

“I just look at what’s going on in Colorado right now and it makes me sad,” Passan said on “The Pat McAfee Show” on Monday. “You talk with executives around baseball guys, and they look at the Colorado Rockies job as being something that they would like to do when they’re in like in their frisky age of executive-dom. When they can go in there and just try and run experiments, because it’s like you’re playing on the moon when you’re in Colorado.”

Passan also emphasized that the organization is stuck in a cycle of complacency, as they haven’t tried to make any changes in recent years.

“The Rockies, what they have is the disease of complacency. They have done nothing different, they have not changed things, they are not one of the clubs that’s toward the top, the middle, they’re right at the bottom when it comes to innovation,” Passan said.

That ‘disease of complacency’ that has plagued the Rockies organization over recent years is what has drawn comparisons to the 1899 Cleveland Spiders and the 1895 Louisville Colonels, two of baseball’s worst teams ever. The front office has been hesitant to spend at times, and at the others when they have signed a large check, they’ve struck out and missed, just like their lineup does so many times.

Passan’s point about Coors Field not being a friendly park to the players — even though the fans love it and the Rooftop — plays a large factor into the lack of success from the purple and black since their last postseason appearance in 2018. The ball flies farther at altitude, and the large outfield makes it challenging for outfields to make plays that could be possible in other parks. It’s not exactly an advantage, but it shouldn’t be that much of a burden.

“They’re just an organization that’s a decade plus behind right now,” Passan said.

Passan is just one of many national names who have taken note of the worst team in the history of the modern era, and possibly all of baseball. This team is doing things that are unthinkable in the realm of modern baseball, and while the members of the team are crying for fans to stick with them, the entire world is watching and wondering if they will hit the mark as the worst team in the history of America’s pastime.

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