Hot- Stove » brian hawpe http://www.hot-stove.com The hottest MLB hot-stove site on the web...since 2004 Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:25:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Rockies, Hawpe reach $17.5M deal http://www.hot-stove.com/rockies-hawpe-reach-175m-deal/ http://www.hot-stove.com/rockies-hawpe-reach-175m-deal/#comments Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:49:00 +0000 admin http://www.hot-stove.com/?p=489 The National League champion Rockies, locking up another of their homegrown players, have agreed to a three-year contract worth just under $17.5 million with right fielder Brad Hawpe. The deal covers Hawpe’s arbitration years and includes a club option for his first free-agent year that could raise the total value of the package to approximately $28 million. Hawpe, 28, reached agreement last month on a one-year, $3.925 million contract. The new deal replaces that one.

The contract also is expected to include a limited form of no-trade protection; if Hawpe were traded, he would gain the right to void the option and become a free agent after the third year.

Hawpe established career highs last season with a .387 on-base percentage, .539 slugging percentage, 29 home runs and 116 RBIs.

They continue to pursue a long-term agreement with left fielder Matt Holiday, who is under contract through 2009 with his new two-year, $23 million deal.

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