Rockies Ownership Shows Commitment To Winning With Moves

Go back one year ago. The Rockies were living in a fantasy world thinking that they were still in the National League West race. They knew that the odds of signing upcoming free agent Brian Fuentes was slim to none and Matt Holliday, who had rejected several of the teams offers for a long-term deal, was in high demand. Not with the Rockies cheapskate owners, as so many fans like to call them. Instead of dealing Holliday and Fuentes, the Rockies kept them, knowing that they would receive compensation picks for Fuentes when he signed somewhere else, and that they would still be able to get a good deal for Holliday either in the offseason or before the 2009 deadline. After the disappointing 2008 season was finally over, many fans were calling for Dick and Charlie Monfort, the Rockies owners, to step up and give both Fuentes and Holliday what they were asking for. Fans were quickly disappointed when Holliday was moved less than two weeks after the World Series to the Oakland A's ...