DENVER -- The Rockies are in an interesting position as the calendar year nears an end and 2026 beckons.

It’s a time of change following a franchise-record 119 losses in 2025, with the hiring of new president of baseball operations Paul DePodesta . And as we saw with Monday’s announcement that Warren Schaeffer will be the club’s manager in ’26, it’s also a time of continuity in certain respects.

How to meld the two elements into a prosperous dynamic was the theme of a press conference held Wednesday in which DePodesta and Schaeffer spoke about how they envision the immediate and intermediate future of the franchise.

DePodesta represents a fresh outsider perspective for an organization that in recent years has primarily promoted from within. And Schaeffer represents the institutional

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