The Colorado Rockies are bringing back ex-manager Don Baylor. Baylor will be the teams new hitting coach news sources reported on Monday in Denver.

The team also brought in Jim Tracy to serve as the bench coach and Rich Dauer as third base coach. Jim Wright becomes the bullpen coach and Brian Jordan will be the strength and conditioning coach.

The only coaches that were retained from last year are first base coach Glenallen Hill and and manager Clint Hurdle.

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On Monday the Colorado Rockies and Oakland Athletics worked out a trade that will send Matt Holliday to the Oakland Athletics. The Rockies will be getting Greg Smith, Huston Street, and Carlos Gonzalez back from the A’s in exchange for Holliday.

This deal is decent but I was hoping for a little bit more for Holliday. Smith is a pretty wild pitcher that doesn’t serve well for Coors Field. Street is a good reliever that will need to fill in for Brian Fuentes who the Rockies let walk away. Gonzalez, 23, saw his first big league action last season and hit .242 with four home runs and 26 RBIs in 302 at-bats.

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It sounds like Matt Holliday will indeed be traded this off season as reports are really heating up about the New York Yankees wanting him. Holliday has said in recent interviews that he does not think the Rockies can compete every year like he would like and that his contract extenstion talks were not a distraction to the team. I won’t doubt Holliday one bit but I do know that Rockies fans are going to hate seeing him play for another team.

It sounds like the Rockies are after Ian Kennedy of the Yankees but he would not be the prized jewel of the trade. The Rockies could be looking at a Robinson Cano possibly and also Kennedy in a deal. Look for a trade to happen in the month of December. It will be intersting to see who the Rockies are able to get for Holliday. And who knows, it could be from a different team then the Yankees.

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