Rockies’ Walker Monfort responds to fans, says ‘we’re frustrated as well’

Walker Monfort, who was recently promoted to be the executive vice president of the Colorado Rockies, responded to frustrated fans in an interview recently

BY TRENT FINNEGAN

Jul 2, 2025, 10:31 AM Updated: 10:32 am

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The Colorado Rockies recently promoted Walker Monfort to be the organization’s executive vice president in a move that put yet another Monfort in a position of power for the worst team in the history of baseball. Fans have been calling for his father, Dick, to sell the team for years, but this move reassured that the family has no plans on going anywhere else anytime soon.

The newly promoted Walker sat down with KUSA-CH. 9‘s Scotty Gange recently, and provided some insight into what is thought process has been with inheriting the mess of a team, and the fans calling for his family to step down.

"We have to look in the mirror…We're frustrated as well." 🗣️

Walker Monfort shares his opinions on the state of the Rockies and the mess that he's in charge of cleaning up. ⚾️

Walker's the eldest son of Owner Dick Monfort and was recently promoted to Executive VP. 🎥 #9sports pic.twitter.com/WyIGAoezB1

— Scotty Gange (@Scotty_G6) July 2, 2025

“We’re frustrated as well … This is a sport, that it’s a challenge year after year, but we know we can be better,” Monfort said. “I’m a Rockies fan at heart, I think there’s no reason to do this if you’re not going to try to win. We know that and the goal is to get there.”

For reference, the Monfort family has practically had full control of the Rockies organization since 2005 when they bought out Jerry McMorris, who was the franchise’s first president back in 1993. Since that year, the Rockies’ 1,766 losses are the third-most in the MLB, only behind the Royals and the Pirates. The club’s nine playoff wins are the seventh-fewest in the league since that year, and if you remove the diamond-in-the-rough 2007 World Series run, that number drops to two, which would be tied for the fewest amount of victories.

They’ve had the guys to make winning possible, as seen in 2018. Nolan Arenado was shipped away, Trevor Story and DJ LeMahieu both left in free agency, and every other competent player who has donned the purple on 20th and Blake has been seen as a valuable trade asset rather than a player who could contribute to winning in Denver. Those transactions don’t exactly line up with what Walker said in the interview.

Monfort also had an obvious answer for how the franchise can lift itself out of the massive hole it’s dug over the last couple of seasons.

“We gotta look in the mirror. We have to look in the mirror and understand how have we gotten here, what are the opportunities for us to change and actually look at things differently and implement change,” Monfort said.

To answer that one, whatever change the Rockies have tried to implement in the past few seasons hasn’t worked, as they are well on their way to losing over 100 games for the third consecutive season after not doing so in the history of the franchise before 2023. For anyone who hasn’t been tapped into the baseball scene this season, that loss tally this season is going to be way more than 100.

Finally, Walker had an answer on the topic of spending money, something that Dick cried about before the season as the rival Dodgers continued to empty their pockets while the Rockies sat tight and did nothing.

“Things that we’ve seen in the past that we don’t spend enough money, we do, we do spend a lot of money,” Monfort said. “Whether that’s enough or not is something that we’re already looking at.”

The Monfort family hasn’t had the necessary answers for Rockies fans amidst this 20-year stretch of losing baseball. While they continue to say that they’re hitting the drawing board and looking at different ways to get back to winning baseball, the product on the field has not matched the words coming out of their mouths, and has been highlighted by the 19-66 club that is the laughingstock of the MLB this season.