Players on the Rockies are speaking to the media about the lack of changes in the front office despite continued losing seasons:

Kenneth Monfort was not afraid to try new things, and neither is his son. In August 2012, six weeks after the four-man rotation, Dick Monfort helped create the present front-office structure in which O’Dowd, still armed with the power of a general manager, began traveling extensively to concentrate on player development. Geivett was put in charge of the daily operations of the big-league club and set up an office in the Rockies’ clubhouse just down the hall from then-manager Jim Tracy, who at season’s end walked away from a $1.4 million contract. The Rockies hired Regis Jesuit High School coach Walt Weiss, a former big-league shortstop, to replace Tracy.

The Rockies haven’t improved on the field, and a number of players, coaches and others within the organization say that Geivett’s position creates confusion and undermines Weiss’s authority. “Too many cooks in the kitchen,” one player said.

Said another: “There are times when I’ve felt that I couldn’t really go into Walt’s office and express my feelings about the direction of the club. I could never be sure that ‘Geivo’ wasn’t going to walk in, or that what I said wouldn’t get upstairs.”

Geivett said any fuss about him maintaining his office in the clubhouse is overblown.

“My only response is that I would hope everybody would feel free to talk about any situation they want to,” Geivett said. “That’s what I want, that’s what I believe we have.”

Some of this is frustration, but it also seems that the team has a tough time assigning clear roles. Maybe the team stays healthy next year, and wins, and all this goes away.