What we know (so far) about the Rockies front office search

Spoiler: Not very much.

Renee Dechert

17 Oct 2025 — 4 min read

Walker Monfort

Rumors about the Colorado Rockies search for a President of Baseball Operations or General Manager — apparently, they’ve not yet decided on the title yet — began to leak earlier this week.

Here’s what we know as of this morning.

We know some of the candidates

On Tuesday, Britany Ghiroli of The Athletic reported the names of three candidates who had interviewed:

James Click — Toronto Blue Jays vice president of baseball strategy
Scott Sharp — Kansas City Royals senior vice president/executive general manager
Matt Forman — Cleveland Guardians executive vice president and assistant general manager

If you’d like to know more, I wrote about the candidates right after the news broke, but my initial impressions are twofold.

First, this is a very different pool than the Rockies would have interviewed in the past. All work with winning organizations that have highly developed analytics systems. Hiring any of these executives will mark a sea change for the Rockies.

Second, they are very different from each other.

Click has the classic “Moneyball” profile: Yale grad; Chaim Bloom protégé, time with the Tampa Bay Rays; a World Series win with the Astros.

(Longtime Astros followers will point out, though, that that championship was less Click’s work than finishing up the project Jeff Luhnow had started. Also, here’s an article arguing that Click was the wrong person to be the Blue Jays’ GM.)

In contrast, Sharp is a former catcher in the Reds system who’s worked his way into the front office. (Here’s a link to his MiLB stats on Baseball Reference in case you’re interested.) Of the three men, he is the only one with a player background, and even then, he never made it to The Show. He the oldest of the candidates at 53 and seems to me the least likely. (He’s been with the Royals for his entire career.)

Then there’s Forman, who was a finalist for the Washington Nationals PBO. He has a degree in journalism and history and made his way to the Guardians’ front office through writing for Baseball America. The Guardians run the kind of organization the Rockies have indicated they would like to emulate. And in addition, the Rockies and Guardians have a history of making trades, so they are, presumably familiar with Forman in that capacity.

I still have not ruled out Thad Levine, and I wrote about him here.

His pedigree, including time with the Rockies, suggests he might be a nice fit, and I’ll just say that his podcast is encouraging. (I yearn for a PBO/GM who is articulate.) Whether he’s actually interviewed for the Rockies’ position, however, remains unknown.

If nothing else, it is refreshing to have the Rockies conducting a true search rather than appointing the person down the hall.

We learned a bit more about the Rockies’ timeline

Yesterday, Patrick Saunders reported that the Rockies’ front office would see some additional restructuring. The club will bring in a chief revenue and strategy officer.”

Saunders writes:

“The job of the CRSO would be to grow revenues to be reinvested back into baseball operations and the team,” the source said.

So this suggests there will be some changes in the business side of the Rockies’ house in addition to refurbishing the baseball operations suite.

Also according to Saunders, the Rockies hope to ascertain their finalists as early as next week though they have not yet determined if this person will be a PBO or GM.

Earlier this week, Thomas Harding reported that the Rockies plan to have the new PBO/GM in place by the end of the World Series and certainly before the general managers meetings (November 10-13).

We know that Walker Monfort is leading the search

Walker’s prominent role in this search indicates that Dick Monfort is continuing to turn control of the Rockies over to his sons. However, as Saunders makes clear, Walker views his father as a key stakeholder in the process.

In any number of ways, 2026 will mark a season of substantial change for the Colorado Rockies.

Closing thoughts

It’s a weird in-between time for the Rockies and their fans. There’s no point in speculating about much of anything until the new leadership is in place and we have a sense of their approach. But after the position is filled, there will be plenty of news: front office hires; manager selection; roster moves; and free-agent signings.

Until then, we wait.

But perhaps we’ll get the first big answer next week.

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Accolades

Let’s hear it for Ryan McMahon, the Rockies’ (kinda) lone Gold Glove finalist:

McMahon will compete in the National League, but it seems unlikely he will beat Ke’Bryan Hayes, who had an absolutely stellar year at third base.

Still, it’s another metric by which to prove just how bad the Rockies were in 2025: Truly, nothing worked.

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What I’m reading

“Austin Gomber lost his way in 2025” | Purple Row — At Purple Row, we’re in the midst of our annual “Ranking the Rockies“ series. Talk about depressing: The Rockies used many players in 2025 — 57 to be exact — and we’re going to profile each of them. At some point, we will get to players who were above replacement-level, but not in the near future. Still, Austin Gomber’s season was especially discouraging.
“MLB free agents that could help the 2026 Rockies offense” | Denver Gazette — Kevin Henry suggests some players that might help a young and rebuilding Rockies team.
“Jerry Schemmel, longtime Rockies radio voice, laid off by iHeartRadio” | Denver Post — This news makes me incredibly sad. I hope he lands someplace soon.

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