DENVER -- At the center of Thursday morning’s press conference at Coors Field was Paul DePodesta, the Rockies’ new president of baseball operations . To his right was Walker Monfort, the new executive vice president and the guy to whom DePodesta reports.

Dick Monfort, the team’s owner, chairman and CEO, and Walker’s dad, sat to DePodesta's left.

“I think they’re sort of pushing me out -- doesn’t it feel that way?” Dick Monfort asked jokingly, before smiling.

Quips aside, Thursday’s dynamic made real the fact that the Rockies, after seven consecutive seasons of sub-.500 records and historic losing this year, and after years of being a franchise seemingly set in losing ways due in part to a lack of clear processes, change comes from new thinking at the top.

Dick Monfort, who is heading

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