Charlie Blackmon gave up his mullet, but there’s no way the baseball diehard could completely walk away from the game.

The Rockies named Blackmon special assistant to general manager Bill Schmidt on Saturday ahead of the start of Rockies Fest at Coors Field.

In that role, Blackmon — who now has a fresh hair cut, but the same signature beard — will help the Rockies on both the major and minor-league level. That will include being at spring training and instructional league, as well as scouting for the Rockies around his home state of Georgia and joining up with the team during road trips to the East Coast.

It’s a move that doesn’t exactly come as a surprise, considering the former outfielder hinted last summer that he wanted to stay involved with the organization in some capacity following his retirement as a player.

“A guy like Charlie, baseball just doesn’t leave him,” Rockies manager Bud Black observed. “For some guys, when baseball is over, it’s over. Charlie isn’t one of those guys.”

Blackmon said he envisions the job could grow into something bigger in future years, but for this summer, he’s putting his primary focus on his wife and two kids. He won’t be around the club on an everyday basis like Vinny Castilla, who remains a special assistant to Schmidt.

“This first year I’m going to spend a whole lot of time with my family, and I’m just glad to have this baseball outlet,” Blackmon said. “I’ll do a lot of things for the club but it’s not a full-time role, though I don’t know what the role will look like in the future.”

Blackmon spent his entire 14-year playing career with Colorado.

The four-time All-Star and two-time Silver Slugger ranks among the top Rockies in an array of statistical categories, including first in triples, second in games played, runs scored, hits, doubles, extra-base hits and total bases, and tied for fifth in homers. The pitcher-turner-hitter was a second-round pick out of Georgia Tech in 2008. He was a centerpiece on two playoff teams and won the National League batting title in 2017 with a .331 average.

In his final career at-bat, Blackmon singled up the middle against the Dodgers at Coors Field on Sept. 29 last season. He left the game to an extended standing ovation and said he’s since resisted the temptation to pick up his bat and hit in the cage.

“I haven’t taken any swings since I retired with my wooden bats,” Blackmon said. “But sometimes, when we have the little play-set bat and I’m playing with the kids, sometimes daddy needs an at-bat. I can’t play defense all the time.”

Blackmon’s been enjoying family time amid a less regimented schedule this winter, including traveling. Earlier this week, he went on a ski trip to Vail with his wife, Ashley, and his two children, Josie and Wyatt.

“It’s important for me now to be there to support my wife, help my kids learn to color inside the lines and play nice on the swing set,” Blackmon said. “It’s nice, I haven’t missed too much of that. I still have time to get in there and get my hands dirty and wipe a bunch of butts and put people in timeout. I’ve been enjoying it.”

For the Rockies, Blackmon’s retirement has left a noticeable leadership void in the clubhouse that will need to be filled by a committee of players in 2025.

“It’s big shoes to fill,” third baseman Ryan McMahon said. “I’m not going to take it on by myself, but we’ve got a bunch of players who are capable of doing it this year, so it’s going to be a group effort. Chuck was definitely a guy we looked to when (stuff) hit the fan, so that’s going to be a new role for me and others.”