Rockies Hope To Lock Up Holliday, Cook
Their season over, Rockies fans are already worrying about Matt Holliday’s future. Troy E. Renck notes that the Rockies owner insisted they’ll try to sign him long-term. As it is, Holliday’s $4.4MM salary will jump to $9-10MM in ’08. He reaches free agency after the 2009 season, but in 2008 I could see him earning $13-15MM. Oh, and one more thing – Holliday is represented by Scott Boras.
Holliday has a .364/.425/.662 career line at home and a .273/.333/.448 career line on the road. Todd Helton at least was a .900 OPS guy even on the road, but Holliday basically turns into Jacque Jones when he’s not at Coors. Nonetheless Boras is going to be talking $20MM annually for eight years if Holliday reaches free agency at age 30.
Fortunately for the Rockies, Cook is not represented by Boras. He has a certain $4.5MM option for ’08, and then he’ll be eligible for free agency. Cook’s agent Joe Bick expects extension conversations within a few weeks. I could see the two sides settling around the three-year, $33MM pact given to Jake Westbrook.