Former Rockies coach and manager Clint Hurdle was fired from his job as manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates during the final weekend of the 2019 regular season.
Despite being fired, at least originally, Hurdle planned on staying in baseball as he, a former hitting coach, was interviewed by the San Diego Padres to become their hitting coach but instead, he decided to retire from baseball after spending every year in professional baseball since being drafted in 1975.
He spent 16 of those seasons as a member of the Colorado Rockies organization. He came to the Rockies in their second season of existence, in 1994, as the club’s minor league hitting coordinator, where he spent the next three seasons.