Warren Schaeffer: Rockies players ‘believe in each other’ after 18th win of season

The Colorado Rockies have been playing better baseball as of late, and despite being one of the worst teams of all time, interim manager Warren Schaeffer says the players still believe in each other

BY TRENT FINNEGAN

Jun 23, 2025, 10:26 AM

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Everyone stay calm, the Colorado Rockies have won their 18th game of the season.

After Sunday’s 4-2 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks, the Rockies are now only 21.5 games out of fourth place in the NL West, 29.5 out of first. They are seven games behind the 29th-place Chicago White Sox as they look to do everything in their power to lose less than 121 games this season, the worst mark in the modern era that was set by the White Sox a season ago.

Despite the woes of this one-of-a-kind 2025 season that have the Rockies being the laughingstock of the MLB, interim manager Warren Schaeffer has the backs of his players, and knows that the players have the backs of each other.

“The guys in that room believe in each other, and this has been a consistent theme with this group moving forward,” Schaeffer said after the win. “There’s no quit, they don’t quit.”

That sentiment has proven on the field. With six wins in the last 11 games — albeit against three of the easier opponents in the league — this club has shown no signs of quit. The bats have woken up, highlighted by the efforts of Hunter Goodman and Mickey Moniak, the pitching has looked besides a pair of bad showings, and the team just looks more like a bad MLB team than a Triple-A ball club.

Mickey Moniak go-ahead blast! pic.twitter.com/J2fDK2q0lU

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Does that change the fact that this is still one of the worst seasons of all time and that the fact the franchise has reached this low level is almost organizational malpractice? No. Change still needs to be made at almost every level on the coaching staff and in the front office while the young guns on the field continue to rack up more major league experience. The recent rumors of Bud Black possibly returning to the team as a pitching coach, which have recently cooled down, is a sign that the organization can’t get out of it’s own head and make the tough decisions that might trade friendships for success on the diamond.

While it’s great that the Rockies have been playing .500 ball over the last two weeks, that’s not something that most teams are happy about, as that level of baseball never equates to a World Series title. With a day off on Monday, a reality check against the Los Angeles Dodgers is next up on the agenda, a test that will show if the Rockies have changed at all, or if they’ve just been feasting on worse competition.