Rockies Journal: Manager Warren Schaeffer ‘through the roof’ about team’s new direction
ORLANDO Fla Warren Schaeffer is optimistic by nature Monday afternoon he was exponentially optimistic Colorado s -year-old manager having shed his interim tag now gets a fresh start He s joined Paul DePodesta the new president of baseball operations along with Josh Byrnes the new general manager in an effort to raise the Rockies from the ashes of their -loss season Schaeffer will organize spring training his way I m through the roof about it he commented This is something you look forward to for a long time The process that we re in right now building a staff is something that I ve been wanting to do for a very very long time Getting a bunch of guys on the same page pulling the same way looking to develop the same mindset with these players We ll try to create a new tradition in spring training of what the Rockies look like moving forward It s a fresh start With Paul coming in with J B coming in it just feels so fresh and new and exciting It feels like we have a solid good road ahead of us Rockies fans will be forgiven if they counter Schaeffer s optimism with pessimism They have been down this offseason road before Still there are indications that things are changing The club has already jettisoned first baseman Michael Toglia the first-round pick in It also cut loose catcher Drew Romo who was the th overall pick in the highest the Rockies have ever drafted a catcher Those are signs that the new brass is setting the bar higher no matter the athlete s pedigree Rockies looking at doable free agents to fill gaping hole at first base This file is auto-generated function d l use strict l querySelector d addEventListener undefined typeof URL d wp d wp d wp receiveEmbedMessage d wp receiveEmbedMessage function e var t e details if t t secret t message t value a-zA-Z - test t secret for var s r n a l querySelectorAll 'iframe data-secret ' t secret ' ' o l querySelectorAll 'blockquote data-secret ' t secret ' ' c new RegExp https i i i
