Free agent preview: Colorado Rockies

If your team has two of the best franchise cornerstones in baseball under the age of 30 signed long-term, how do you lose 98 games in a season involving both of those players? Simple: they combine to play 182 games, your team's pitching staff is an absolute disaster, your manager is a buffoon, and the team's front office is incompetent. Ladies and gentlemen, your 2012 Colorado Rockies! All isn't lost in Colorado, though. Needs The Rockies actually did a good option at transitioning to younger players in 2012, giving Wilin Rosario the majority of the playing time behind the plate instead of veteran Ramon Hernandez, trading Marco Scutaro at the trade deadline and giving his playing time to DJ LeMehieau, and starting Josh Rutledge at short in the second half with Troy Tulowitzki out. But there are still a lot of places where the Rockies might need to look to outside of the organization, most notably first base. Todd Helton missed a ton of time, resulting in iron glove...