Bob Gebhard

Robert Henry Gebhard (born January 3, 1943) is an American retired front-office executive in Major League Baseball and a former right-handed pitcher for the Minnesota Twins and Montreal Expos.

All told, Gebhard compiled a record of one win, three defeats and an earned run average of 5.93 over 31 games and 41 innings of Major League play.

He then returned to the Twins to become assistant general manager under Andy MacPhail, working with Minnesota during its 1987 and 1991 world championship seasons, before becoming the first GM in Rockies' history during the 1991–92 offseason.

He supervised the building of the Rockies' farm system during 1992, ran the expansion draft for them, and hired Don Baylor as the club's first manager.

However, successive losing campaigns in 1998–99, amplified by the Rockies' pitching staff's struggles at Coors Field, resulted in rampant speculation in late 1999 that Gebhard would be replaced as general manager.