Jim Tracy resigns as Colorado Rockies – MLB Update
Jim Tracy has resigned as Colorado Rockies manager after his team showed a disappointing run in 2012 Major League Baseball regular season.
Rockies lost total 98 games with bitter humiliation and finished at bottom in the National League West with poor .395 winning percentage.
"Let me put it to you this way, I really don't feel that I am the right man for the job any longer. A lot of situations have changed since. It changed quite a bit from May 29 (2009) to the present, I am not the right man for this position," Tracy said on
Sunday during a phone interview in which he told the media regarding his resignation and what are the reasons that he is stepping down as Rockies’ manager after spending some fine years in the franchise.
This is also a franchise record that Rockies lost that many games. The Rockies top management on the other hand, is stating that Tracy’s replacement has been started but overall it is still very early to say anything for any potential name.
Rockies have also mentioned in local news that Tracy’s potential replacement is inevitable but the management is giving no time frame yet in the media to see things ahead that who will be the most ideal person for the job.
"I was surprised, You know, Jim and I go back a long time. We worked together for three different clubs,” Bill Geivett, the team's director of major league operations also said in the media and told reports about Tracy’s resignation who met him in detail
before he decided to leave the club.
Geivett added, "Basically, Tracy called me and told me his intentions and we talked about a lot of different things, but he had already made up his mind."
This was the only season in which the Rockies lost that many games under Tracy otherwise he had many excellent moments during his tenure in Colorado.
Tracy led the Rockies into the playoffs in 2009 and in the same year, he was voted as National League manager of the year. Overall Tracy had 294-203 win loss record with the Rockies.
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