Colorado Rockies Executive VP/General Manager Jeff Bridich stepped down on Monday, effective immediately, after six-plus seasons on the job.
The club also said that Executive VP/Chief Operating Officer Greg Feasel has been named President/COO and will oversee baseball operations.
The Rockies will appoint an interim general manager before starting a search for a permanent replacement.
Bridich took over after former GM Dan O'Dowd and Bill Geivett, Director of Major League Operations, resigned on October 8, 2014.
Bridich joined the Rockies to oversee Minor League Operations in 2004 and a year later became the director of baseball operations. He was the senior director of player development from 2011-2014.
As general manager, Bridich assembled the Rockies rosters that made the postseason in 2017 and 2018. In that run was the N.L. Wild Card win over the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field.
The club slipped to 71-91 in 2019 and then went 26-34 in the COVID-shortened 2020 season.
Bridich was a catcher and outfielder at Harvard University, graduating in 2000.
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GENERAL MANAGER JEFF BRIDICH STEPS DOWN AND GREG FEASEL NAMED CLUB PRESIDENT
DENVER– The Colorado Rockies announced today that the club and Executive Vice President/General Manager Jeff Bridich have mutually agreed that Bridich will step down from his role, effective immediately.
Feasel, the club’s Executive Vice President/Chief Operating Officer since 2010 and in his 26th season with the organization, has been named President/Chief Operating Officer. He will now oversee baseball operations in addition to his current responsibilities leading all facets of the club’s business operations, including spearheading the organization’s role as host of the 2021 MLB All-Star Game festivities this July.
In his seventh season as General Manager, Bridich brings to a close 17 years with the Rockies organization. Bridich joined the Rockies baseball department in 2004 and rose to senior director of baseball operations in 2006, and then senior director of player development in 2011. Since being named GM in October 2014, Bridich oversaw the Rockies’ only consecutive playoff appearances in franchise history, in 2017 and 2018.
The organization will be appointing an interim General Manager for the remainder of the season, and they will conduct a search for a permanent General Manager once the 2021 MLB postseason has completed.