Walt Weiss will remain Rockies manager

Walt Weiss will remain the manager of the Colorado Rockies under new general manager Jeff Bridich.

Anytime there is a changing of the guard in a Major League front office, the manager has to wonder about his job security too.

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Thankfully for Walt Weiss, the Colorado Rockies promoted an internal candidate to replace Dan O’Dowd and Bill Geivett, taking some of the uncertainty out of his situation. Jeff Bridich, formerly the Senior Director of Player Development, was named the new GM on Wednesday.

Sure enough, Weiss didn’t even have to wait until his lunch break on Wednesday before it became clear that he will remain the manager of the Rockies. This bit of news also serves to confirm that the Rockies are not necessarily looking to make widespread changes, whether it be in the front office or in the dugout.

Per Patrick Saunders.

FYI, #Rockies manager Walt Weiss will keep his job.
— Patrick Saunders (@psaundersdp) October 8, 2014

This feels like the right move for the Rockies. Between the injuries and the wonky front office structure that have hampered Weiss and the Rockies the last two seasons, I’m not sure anybody can reasonably say that they have a good feel for how good Weiss actually is as a manager.

Other than some nonsensical hot takes when Weiss did not get ejected from a game during his first season on the job, I cannot recall many strong opinions on the Rockies’ skipper one way or the other. Like Bridich, I just hope he gets the chance to be left alone enough to do his job so that we can know if he is a good manager for the Rockies or not.

Pending an announcement that Bridich will have a desk in the locker room, Weiss should at least be able to take over that aspect of the team and actually run things his way. He can decide whether or not to leave players alone, actually make himself available to players to express their concerns, and so on.

Giving Weiss that levity is step one to figuring out if he is the long-term answer at manager. Step two would be giving him a decent roster. That hasn’t happened in the last two seasons, and it might not happen anytime soon, but we should still get a better sense of Weiss as manager in 2015 than we have during his tenure so far.

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