The process hasn't prevented the Colorado Rockies from being historically bad in 2025

With all due respect to Bill Schmidt, I’m just not sure I believe him when he says he believes in the current process, or the Colorado Rockies’ trajectory.

Earlier this week, Schmidt said as much per Thomas Harding of MLB.com.

“It’s hard to say, but we’re continuing to build,” Schmidt said to MLB.com. “We like some of our young players. They’ll continue to grow and get better. Now we need more and we’ll keep grinding away. I believe in the process.”

The process hasn’t produced much.

After winning just 61 games a year ago, the Rockies showed some promise in spring training. However, that didn’t translate at all as Colorado is the first team to ever be 7-36 in the modern era of baseball.

Sure, you can blame injuries and that’s what Schmidt did earlier this week. Indeed, the Rockies lost newly acquired Thairo Estrada before the season started. They also have Ezequiel Tovar on the IL and Kris Bryant is Kris Bryant.

Yes, injuries have certainly been a part of the demise of Colorado in 2025. But, the process? That’s another story.

Colorado has some good young prospects still in the minor leagues, but that doesn’t excuse some weird personnel decisions, including how and the Rockies’ starting pitching is. That’s on Schmidt and ownership. The bottom line is, if you can’t pitch you can’t win, and the Rockies are headed towards having the worst statistical pitching staff in baseball for the second season in a row.

The bad pitching has been compounded by Colorado’s shockingly bad offense. And that too could be pinned on Schmidt to extent. Maybe the Rockies have overvalued Ryan McMahon and Michael Toglia. Those two are expected to be the Rockies’ leading hitters and right now, they’re not even close. 

Then there’s some weird trades, like getting rid of Nolan Jones and not trading for any pitching. That’s all on Schmidt too.

Look, no one is saying Schmidt is all to blame for the disaster that is the Rockies’ season, but, he’s very much responsible for part of it. And for him to say he believes in the process, when the process hasn’t shown any tangible results in more then two seasons now, it really sounds like he’s trying to save his job.

And yet, of Bill Schmidt wants to save his job, the process should be the least of his concerns. He should be talking about what the Rockies can do to get better now. 

That’s because Colorado is headed for a historically bad record, and if it comes to that, Schmidt may not be part of the process any longer.

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