Rockies Not Making Progress With Holliday

Rockies star left fielder and Scott Boras client Matt Holliday is set to reach free agency after the 2009 season.  Team owner Dick Monfort weighed in on the situation:

I don’t know if we will be able to sign him.  It could always happen during the year, I guess, but that’s a distraction and we can’t have that. The chance of him becoming a free agent increases with each year that passes.

Boras’ thoughts on the topic:

Matt is happy in Colorado.  If they want to offer a one-year contract, that’s fine. If they want to offer him a franchise contract, like they have done in the past, we would review it at that time.

My guess is that the four-year, $60MM proposal the Rockies considered wouldn’t be seen as a "franchise offer" by Boras.  With the info we have now it looks like Holliday will get a free agent deal exceeding $100MM following the ’09 season.

One other Rockies note from Renck’s column – it sounds like the Rox might wait another year before seriously thinking about a long-term deal for Troy Tulowitzki.