Comparing Rockies/Sox operations

[caulfield12]

and changes.. 

Just thought it would be interesting to compare/contrast.

 

So many similarities are quite obvious, because that's all Sox fans read about the last three seasons...what was wrong or rotten.

 

"DePodesta’s hire was surprising, especially given that the Rockies were reportedly deep into talks with Cleveland’s Matt Forman and Arizona’s Amiel Sawdaye, two well-regarded executives with real influence in their respective organizations. But the man who inspired Jonah Hill’s character in “Moneyball” is, at the very least, an outside voice, something that couldn’t be said about Colorado’s previous two top baseball ops execs.

The task ahead of DePodesta, Byrnes and whoever else heeds the call is downright monumental. This is an organization in disarray, depressingly behind the times.”

 

Two separate sources recounted a story from the beginning of the 2024 season, when the team prohibited players at multiple levels from throwing bullpens in front of trackman units, mobile devices that capture and display pitch data in real time.

“I remember somebody more or less tricked an intern into giving us a TruMedia password,” a former Rockies minor-league player recounted, referencing the data analytics platform used by a majority of MLB clubs. “And it was just, like, one TruMedia password spread across a pretty good chunk of the org’s players so that they could see game data."

https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/whats-ahead-for-the-rockies-can-an-mlb-team-stuck-in-the-past-finally-join-the-modern-game-011248598.html

 

Edited 17 hours ago by caulfield12

[caulfield12]

Of course, the clear and obvious difference is the Rockies have always been a profitable and diversified positive revenue-generating enterprise regardless of their on-field product or one playoff victory since Monfort took over as control person fifteen seasons ago.

So the pressure to actually win has pretty much been non existent, even now after 43-119 and the worst RS/RA differential ever recorded.

 

"Coors Field is a gem of a ballpark, and the Rockies pack it more often than you’d expect for a divisional doormat. The team has finished in the top half of the league in attendance per game every season since 2008 and did so again in 2025, despite the abysmal on-field performance. One former player jokingly described the yard as “a beer garden with a ball field.”

Edited 15 hours ago by caulfield12

[soxrwhite]

White Sox vs Rockies World Seies20??

[caulfield12]

56 minutes ago, soxrwhite said:

White Sox vs Rockies World Seies20??

Not counting on Colorado to ever come out of Dodgers’ division any time soon.

Even a WC seems far-fetched.

And DePodesta has been away from the sport for a full decade.

Edited 13 hours ago by caulfield12

[WhiteSox2023]

1 hour ago, soxrwhite said:

White Sox vs Rockies World Seies20??

This is set to happen in season 25 of “Stranger Things” within The Upside Down world.

[BrittBurnsFan]

Hit up a Blue Jays game at Coors this year...it is a fun ballpark!  They open the gates to the OF seats early for batting practice and have a stand selling $3 Coors Original/LIght tallboys until game time!  Took my 3 boys and my parents...had a blast!  Jays crushed the Rockies but every single employee we interacted with was polite and positive.  My parents needed assistance getting to their seats and the Rockies provided wheel chair service from the handicapped parking lot all the way to their seats!  And when the game ended, the same workers met us and wheeled my parents all the way back to the car!  It was a fun night for my family!  The Rockies suck yeah...but the park felt like a destination that night...on a weeknight in August!

[southsider2k5]

5 hours ago, WhiteSox2023 said:

This is set to happen in season 25 of “Stranger Things” within The Upside Down world.

About the time Will and 11 turn 60?