Marcel Lachemann has resigned as specialist assistant to Rockies general manager Dan O’Dowd, stepping down after spending 12 seasons in the organization because of “different ideas on the development of pitchers.”
Based on what Lachemann told Jack Etkin of Inside the Rockies, he appears to have a pretty strong disagreement with the team’s approach:
Not that I’m right. There’s all different ways to do it. I just don’t feel comfortable being there and working with some kid and saying, “This is the way the Rockies do it” if I don’t believe in it. By the same point, I don’t want to be the guy standing in the background saying, “I don’t know why they do it that way.” When that becomes the case, it’s just time to move on.
Etkin notes that multiple pitchers drafted by the Rockies in the first round have struggled in recent years and the 70-year-old Lachemann plans to keep working in another organization because “I don’t think my wife could put up with me day in and day out.”
