Dodgers’ Dave Roberts Delivers Scathing Blow After Rockies Axe Bud Black: “Not Even Casey Stengel Could Fix That Team”
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However, as Roberts pointed out, few managers — even one who won 1,905 games and nine World Series championships like Stengel — could succeed with the roster that the Rockies’ front office and ownership have assembled.
A bad team typically has young talent that can develop. But Colorado’s minor league system ranks 18th out of baseball’s 30 organizations, according to MLB.com. The payroll carries a seven-year, $182 million pact for Kris Bryant, who’s played only 170 games in his four seasons with the Rockies and has a degenerate lumbar condition that recently required surgery.
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