Changes, first-year Rockies general manager Bill Schmidt readily concedes, were needed in the front office.
“There were, and are, a lot of good people here,” Schmidt said. “But we got to a point where adjustments were needed and fresh people needed to be brought in. We needed some new ideas. We needed everybody pulling in the same direction.”
Whether the Rockies have done enough to change the club’s culture and rebound after three consecutive losing seasons remains to be seen. But Schmitt has made it a major point of emphasis to both change the culture and beef up the franchise’s research-and-development department.