{"id":234007,"date":"2025-10-23T03:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T03:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/234007\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T03:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T03:06:08","slug":"rockies-to-part-ways-with-pitching-coach-darryl-scott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/234007\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockies To Part Ways With Pitching Coach Darryl Scott"},"content":{"rendered":"

Darryl Scott will not return as the Rockies\u2019 pitching coach in 2026, according to Thomas Harding of MLB.com<\/a>. Scott briefly played in Colorado\u2019s minor league system in 1995 and 2000 and later rejoined the organization as a minor league coach in 2009. He has worked for the Rockies in various capacities ever since, including as a pitching coach for four of the team\u2019s minor league affiliates.<\/p>\n

Ahead of the 2020 season, the Rockies promoted Scott, then their minor league pitching coordinator, to the major league coaching staff. He took over the role of bullpen coach from Darren Holmes, which he would hold for two seasons. In October 2021, he was promoted to pitching coach, replacing Steve Foster.<\/p>\n

In four seasons under Scott, Rockies pitchers rank third-last in the majors in adjusted ERA (ERA-), trailing only the Athletics and Nationals. Even accounting for park factors, their ERA has been more than 10% higher than league average in each of the past four years. They\u2019ve ranked 30th out of 30 teams in strikeout rate every year of Scott\u2019s tenure as pitching coach, and they haven\u2019t limited walks or hard contact to compensate for all those batters they\u2019ve failed to strike out.<\/p>\n

Scott can\u2019t take the blame for all, or even most, of his team\u2019s pitching struggles. It\u2019s not as if the now-ousted<\/a> GM Bill Schmidt ever gave him a ton of talent to work with. Not to mention, coaching in the high altitude of Coors Field is an enviable task for even the most ambitious of pitching gurus. Still, it\u2019s not a good look for Scott that Colorado\u2019s pitching only seemed to get worse in every season under his supervision. Several of the team\u2019s pitchers have regressed in recent years, and few have lived up to their full potential.<\/p>\n

So, the Rockies will add \u201cpitching coach\u201d to their list of offseason needs, although hiring a new front office leader<\/a> and deciding whether interim manager Warren Schaeffer will stick around next season are significantly higher up on the task list. To that point, Scott might not even be the only coach the Rockies have to replace this winter. If their new executive wants a new manager, their new manager could very well decide to overhaul the coaching staff and hire a group of his own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Darryl Scott will not return as the Rockies\u2019 pitching coach in 2026, according to Thomas Harding of MLB.com.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,140481,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-234007","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-darryl-scott","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}