ORLANDO, Fla. — There’s a gaping, first-base-sized hole in the Rockies’ lineup, and they’re spending considerable time at the winter meetings trying to figure out how to fill it.

In fact, Paul DePodesta, the club’s new president of baseball operations, met with representatives of at least two free-agent first basemen on Monday afternoon. However, he didn’t say who the players were.

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“We’re certainly entertaining the idea of some of the veterans that are out there,” DePodesta said during his media session in the Rockies’ suite at the posh Waldorf Astoria Hotel. “Right after this, I have a meeting with, or a couple of meetings, with some guys who represent some first basemen.

“But we also have some other guys still on t

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