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With one of baseball’s most talented lineups as well as promising young starting pitching, Colorado’s new manager will take over a team that appears ready to contend in the near future.

The question is which way general manager Jeff Bridich and owner Dick Monfort will turn to find a manager they believe is best suited to lead that talent to the next level while also embracing the inherent challenges of playing baseball at Coors Field.

鈥淲e will look at multiple avenues and there will be both internal and external interviews that we will want to have,鈥� Bridich said Monday in a conference call with reporters, soon after the team announced Walt Weiss had resigned.

Bridich didn’t delve into the specific qualities he would be looking for in a new manager but he did stress the need for a shared vision. Bridich and Weiss both said Monday that they did not always share the same philosophical outlook and that hindered communication.

“One thing that is important to relationships is that both parties, or all parties involved, work hard to share a vision on how we are going to move this process along and be the best that we can be at the major-league level, and start to put ourselves into a playoff-type of a team,” Bridich said. “This doesn’t happen overnight. Those things happen over time spent. You have to be realistic about that.”

One internal candidate Bridich said he is considering is Glenallen Hill, who has been the manager of the聽Rockies’ Triple-A affiliate the past four seasons and has been with the organization for 12 seasons overall.

Hill offers the organization continuity. He has worked closely with a number of the team’s young players during their respective climbs through the organization.聽Hill, 51, was on the Rockies’ coaching staff from 2007 to 2012 and has also been the organization’s Class A manager. Before that, Hill had a 13-year major-league career as an outfielder with seven different teams, and he was on the Yankees’ World Series championship team in 2000.

The hiring of a former position player would follow a trend for the Rockies. Of the six managers in team history, only Jim Leyland didn’t see major-league action as a position player.

鈥淚t抖阴ap no secret that the Rockies as an organization have often worked internally on a lot of things,鈥� Bridich said. 鈥淚 think (Hill) would be somebody internally that we would consider, certainly. But again, this is all very new information and new news. So there have been no formal plans put in place at this point.鈥�

Other in-house candidates could include third-base coach Stu Cole, who has worked in various coaching roles in the organization, and first-base coach Eric Young, who was a Rockies player for five seasons and has been on the team’s coaching staff the past three seasons.

Bridich did not mention any external candidates the Rockies might target, but one hot name is Bud Black, the 2010 National League manager of the year. Black, who managed the San Diego Padres from 2007 to 2015, is scheduled to interview for the managerial opening with the Atlanta Braves this week, according to multiple reports.

Black, who served as a special assistant to the front office for the Los Angeles Angels this past season, wants to manage again.

鈥淚t抖阴ap a privilege and honor to be one of 30 guys (to manage),鈥� Black told the Orange County Register. 鈥淭here are a lot of potential managerial candidates, but if I鈥檓 in the mix (for a job), yeah, for sure I鈥檇 think about it. … You miss the everyday win or the loss. You feel it from (the front office), but in the dugout it抖阴ap a little different feel. You miss the emotion of the dugout, the intensity of the dugout.鈥�

Black, 59, was a major-league pitcher for 15 seasons. His eight seasons managing in the National League West also give Black a good feel for the challenge of competing at Coors Field.

鈥淭his is a tough place, a fun place and a not-so-fun place to play all wrapped into one. No lead feels safe,” Black said about Coors Field last year. “And no lead feels insurmountable when you are trying to attack. You always feel good about your ability to come back.”

Ron Washington, former manager of the Texas Rangers, has also expressed interest in returning to a managerial position and is also expected to interview with Braves this week.