Rockies announce new staffing changes, but not the ones fans want

A day after the Colorado Rockies fired manager Bud Black, the club announced more changes to the coaching staff as general manager Bill Schmidt and owner Dick Monfort continue to try and shuffle the cards to avoid becoming the worse team in the history of Major League Baseball.

The Colorado Rockies announced today that they have named Triple-A Hitting Coach Jordan Pacheco and Minor League Hitting Coordinator Nic Wilson as interim hitting coaches on the Major League Staff.

Assistant Hitting Coach Andy González will transition to third base coach for…

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Since Clint Hurdle, who was just recently named as the club’s new hitting coach, was named as the interim bench coach, the Rockies once again had shoes to fill on the hitting staff, and have elected to have Jordan Pacheco and Nic Wilson step into place on the staff. Andy Gonzalez will replace interim manager Warren Schaffer, who was the third base coach before he was bumped up in the ranks on Sunday.

Pacheco has been the hitting coach for the Albuquerque Isotopes since November 2021. In his three full seasons as the team’s hitting coach, the Isotopes ranked tin the top-four in batting average out of the ten teams in the Pacific Coast League. This season, they rank sixth. The coach spent the first four years of his MLB playing career with the Rockies starting in 2011.

Wilson has been with the Rockies organization since 2020 when he was hired as a hitting coach for the Boise Hawks. He has since become the hitting coordinator for the Fresno Grizzlies of the California League after spending two seasons as the team’s hitting coach. When he was the coach instead of the coordinator for the Grizzlies in 2021 and 2022, the team finished in first place in the league in both seasons and lost in the league finals.

Gonzalez has been on the Rockies staff as an assistant hitting coach since the start of the 2022 season. He now transitions to the third base coach in an effort to spark any kind of change for the club.

While these changes could provide a needed change for the club and potentially provide some kind of spark, they aren’t the change needed to get back to winning baseball. It seems that this organization will make every move possible except for firing Schmidt, who has some kind of spell cast on Monfort that is keeping him around well past his expiration date.

The Rockies first game with a retooled staff is Monday night against the Texas Rangers in the Lone Star State. First pitch is scheduled for 6:05 p.m. Denver time, as Chase Dollander is set to get the start on the mound.

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