#3 RF

Colorado Rockies

2014 STATS

GM 49

HR10

RBI31

R32

OBP.376

AVG .332

NEW YORK -- Michael Cuddyer will be expensive as a free agent ... if he even decides to leave the Colorado Rockies.

The Rockies made Cuddyer a $15.3 million qualifying offer. He has until next Monday at 4 p.m. ET to accept or reject the one-year offer.

If Cuddyer declines and remains a free agent, the Mets would need to forfeit their first-round pick to sign him. And clearly they would need to commit to a multi-year deal at a high annual salary, given how much Cuddyer would be walking away from with Colorado.

Cuddyer is one of the outfielders who most makes sense for the Mets -- because he figures to get a shorter-term deal and has power.