Rockies prepared to spend at Winter Meetings

Rockies owner, president and CEO Dick Monfort said last month that the team will increase its payroll, which set a team record at $120,586,480 at the end of last season. General manager Jeff Bridich has been operating that way, having seriously approached free-agent first basemen Mark Trumbo and Edwin Encarnacion, whose price tags could conservatively exceed $75 million and require deals of four or five years.