2025 Colorado Rockies

2025 Colorado Rockies / Franchise: Colorado Rockies / BR Team Page

Record: 43-119, Finished 5th in NL Western Division (2025 NL)

Managed by Bud Black (7-33) and Warren Schaeffer (36-86)

Coaches: Dustin Garneau, Ron Gideon, Andy Gonzalez, Clint Hurdle, Hensley Meulens, Jordan Pacheco, Mike Redmond, Warren Schaeffer, Darryl Scott and Nic Wilson

Ballpark: Coors Field

History, Comments, Contributions

The 2025 Colorado Rockies did not set out to beat the just-established modern record for most losses in a season - 121 - set by the Chicago White Sox the previous year, but after a month of action, it sure looked that way. They stumbled out of the gate, winning just one of their first eight games, and finished April at 5-25, after a rare 2-1 win over the Atlanta Braves on April 30th. During those first 30 games they had separate losing streaks of six, seven and eight games. After winning their first game in May - the first time they had won back-to-back games all season, they started another long losing streak. On May 10th, they helped the San Diego Padres set a number of team records, including largest margin of victory and biggest shutout win when they were humiliated with a 21-0 beatdown at home that brought their record to 6-33. That night, Stephen Kolek, making only the second start of his career for San Diego, pitched a complete game and it was the first time a Padres pitcher had ever recorded a complete game shutout at Coors Field.

The Rockies' awful start led to some significant changes. On April 17th, hitting coach Hensley Meulens was let go, replaced by former manager Clint Hurdle, who returned to an on-field job after holding a front office advisory position since 2022. On May 11th - ironically after the team's seventh win of the season - it was the turn of manager Bud Black and bench coach Mike Redmond to lose their jobs; both of them had been there since 2017. Third base coach Warren Schaeffer was named interim manager for the remainder of the season, while Hurdle was asked to act as his bench coach. Assistant hitting coach Andy Gonzalez became the new third base coach, and Jordan Pacheco and Nic Wilson were called up from the minor league coaching ranks to fill the empty hitting coach and assistant hitting coach positions.

The Rockies were just 9-50 on June 2nd when they began a three-game road series against the Miami Marlins. Not only did they win consecutive games against one team for the first time that season, but they actually pulled off a three-game sweep for the first time since May of 2024, with wins by the scores of 6-4, 3-2 and 3-2. Kyle Freeland recorded his first win of the year in that series, and German Marquez his second. The other pitcher who had spent the entire season in the starting rotation was Antonio Senzatela, and together the three had a combined record of 4-25, with an ERA of 6.37. This obscured the fact that their main relievers were pitching well - but usually doing so when the games had long been lost. Still, three different relievers - Zach Agnos, Seth Halvorsen and Tyler Kinley - recorded a save in the sweep of the Marlins, and Agnos, Halvorsen, Jake Bird, Jimmy Herget and Victor Vodnik (who had won one of the games) were all pitching pretty well out of the bullpen; Kinley stuck out from his bullpen-mates with an ERA of 6.04.

The three-game sweep was just a blip though. The Rockies lost seven of their next eight games to set a new post-1900 record for worst record after 70 games, at 13-57, one game worst than the 1932 Boston Red Sox. In their 70th game on June 14th, a 4-1 loss to the Atlanta Braves, they set a franchise record for a nine-inning game by striking out 19 times.

On July 23rd, the Rockies shut out the St. Louis Cardinals, 6-0, at Coors Field. It was the first shutout (solo or combined) by the team in 220 games, a modern record, as their last shutour had come on May 24, 2024. Only two 19th Century teams had ever had a longer such streak. The Rockies were playing somewhat better since the beginning of June, winning 10 games in June and 9 in July, after only getting 9 wins in March, April and May combined, but then they were brought back to reality when the Toronto Blue Jays rolled into town for a three-game series from August 4-6. They lost those three games by scores of 15-1, 10-4 and 20-1. The aggregate score of 45-6, for the second largest run differential in any three-game series since 1901. The Jays set a modern record by collecting 63 hits in the three games, and the totals of 45 runs, 63 hits and 13 homers were the most ever surrendered by Colorado over a three-game series. And if that wasn.t enough, on August 10th, they allowed nine consecutive hits to the Arizona Diamondbacks after two outs in the 5th inning. The Snakes scored eight runs in the inning, on their was to a 13-6 win and another sweep of the hapless Rockies.

The Rockies finished with a record of 43-119, tying the 2023 Detroit Tigers for third-worst of the modern era, behind just the already mentioned White Sox team from the previous season and the 1962 New York Mets. Their starting pitchers had a collective ERA of 6.65, the highest recorded by a major league team since ERA became an official statistic in 1913.

Awards and Honors

• All-Star: Hunter Goodman
• NL Silver Slugger Award: Hunter Goodman (C)

Further Reading

• Thomas Harding: "Rockies unveil new City Connects with a nod to Denver sunsets", mlb.com, April 12, 2025. [1]
• Thomas Harding: "Bud Black let go by Rockies in ninth season as manager", mlb.com, May 11, 2025. [2]
• Thomas Harding: "Rox blank Cards to end longest span between shutouts in Modern Era: Former Deadline acquisitions show out as Rockies prep for this year's deals", mlb.com, July 23, 2025. [3]
• Keegan Matheson and Thomas Harding: "Even Coors hasn't seen historic numbers like these in Blue Jays-Rockies series", mlb.com, August 6, 2025. [4]
• 'Michael Reynolds: "Tovar's 5-hit game helps Rockies' skip earn laundry cart ride in 1st win", mlb.com, May 18, 2025. [5]

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