Clint Hurdle leaves the Rockies after more than 20 years with the club

Clint Hurdle is leaving the Colorado Rockies. The 69-year-old, who managed the club to its only National League pennant in 2007, said goodbye to the organization in a post on X on Friday.

"I would like to extend my appreciation and love for being part of an incredible journey for over 20 years," Hurdle wrote, according to ESPN. "I was granted the opportunity to coach and manage this club. Then, I was asked to come back and mentor the young players and future leaders of this organization. Both were gifts."

Hurdle has been a special assistant to the general manager since 2022. He returned to the Rockies' front office in December 2021 and also took on hitting instructor duties after Hensley Meulens was fired in 2025.

His history with the club goes back to its early years. He was Colorado's minor league hitting coach from 1994 to 1996, then the big league hitting coach under Don Baylor, Jim Leyland and Buddy Bell from 1997 to 2002. He replaced Bell as manager in 2002 and went 534-625 before he was fired in May 2009.

The high point came in between. His 2007 team won the only pennant in franchise history, the run Rockies fans call Rocktober.

"What I will hold onto most isn't the wins. It's the people!" Hurdle wrote. "They are what Rocktober was built on. That's what the next great Rockies team will be built on too."

After Colorado, he worked for the Texas Rangers and then managed the Pittsburgh Pirates from 2011 to 2019. He thanked Rockies owner Dick Monfort "for trusting me with both of those journeys and for always treating me like family and making Colorado feel like home."

Hurdle made clear this isn't a retirement. He said he is "recalculating my journey personally and professionally," which leaves room for another job in the game.

What's next: Hurdle hasn't said where he's headed. The Rockies now head into the offseason without the man who managed the best season in their history.