DENVER — Hope springs eternal for Walker Monfort, the son of Colorado Rockies owner Dick Monfort and the team’s newly minted executive vice president, as it introduced its new president of baseball operations Thursday at Coors Field.

Monfort sat down 1-on-1 with Denver7 Sports’ Lionel Bienvenu, promising autonomy for Paul DePodesta at the helm of baseball operations and pledging to get the Rockies — a sub-.500 club seven years running and fresh off three straight 100-loss seasons — back on track.

“Every decision that we're making and every decision we will make moving forward is based on what we need to do to win more baseball games,” he said. “Where we want to get this place is that we're a consistent winner. People come to this ballpark and expect that they're going to see great Rockie

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