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The Dodgers manager Dave Roberts became disappointed in one Sunday decision. He didn’t mince words about the Rockies firing Bud Black.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Dave Roberts\u00a0watched the second in-season MLB manager change occur Sunday. The\u00a0Los Angeles Dodgers\u00a0skipper witnessed Bud Black lose his job.\u00a0The Colorado Rockies fired Black\u00a0on Mother’s Day, following a rough start for the franchise.<\/p>\n
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Black joins former Pittsburgh Pirates manager Derek Shelton as the newly unemployed coaches. The Rockies also make the move following\u00a0the rough 21-0 loss to the San Diego Padres Saturday.<\/p>\n

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Roberts, however, feels bummed for the now former National League West rival Black. Except Roberts doesn’t view Black as a rival manager. He credited Black for helping mold him into the coaching realm,\u00a0sharing that sentiment\u00a0via Fabian Ardaya of The Athletic.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’m bummed. I’m disappointed,\u201d Roberts began.<\/p>\n

He then mentioned how tough Black had it in the Rocky Mountains. Which a legendary skipper would’ve had trouble with.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don’t think Casey Stengel could change the outcome of that ballclub, and that’s not the manager’s fault,\u201d Roberts said.<\/p>\n

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Roberts walks into a championship atmosphere everyday inside Chavez Ravine. And whenever he’s around the likes of\u00a0Shohei Ohtani,\u00a0Freddie Freeman,\u00a0Mookie Betts,\u00a0Teoscar Hernandez, etc.<\/p>\n

Black faced harsher circumstances at his spot. The Rockies\u00a0owned the league’s 20th-best payroll. Yet Colorado sat lower in the active 26-man payroll department \u2014 ranking 24th at barely above $74 million. The Dodgers are immensely healthy financially with the league’s top payroll and sitting at third for active 26-man.<\/p>\n

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Black was handed a roster with limited star power. The 67-year-old looked like he needed to build a team from the ground up. But earned little help from the front office. Rockies owner Dick Monfort gets criticized for limiting his money spending on the roster.<\/p>\n

Roberts and Black coached together with the Padres from 2011 to 2015. Black helped hire Roberts during a time he served as Padres skipper. He won the 2002 World Series as an assistant under Mike Scioscia with the Anaheim Angels. Black went 544-690 overall with the Rockies.<\/p>\n

Roberts’ Dodgers, meanwhile, own the MLB’s best record at 27-14 overall. Los Angeles even swept Black’s Rockies during the week of April 15.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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