INDIANAPOLIS — Rockies general manager Dan O'Dowd confirmed today that the team has offered a three-year contract to closer Huston Street and multi-year contracts to fellow arbitration eligible players Clint Barmes and Chris Iannetta.

O'Dowd indicated that it's early in the process with Street, and that he didn't have a good read on where the negotiations might end up. Street has been eyeing a deal in the neighborhood of $30 million. Worse-case scenario, the Rockies will bring the right-hander back on a one-year deal.

O'Dowd didn't not reveal the term of contracts offered Barmes and Iannetta. The offer to Barmes is believed to be two years, with a club option for free agency, with Iannetta's deal carrying him to at least to free agency. Both players' agents countered the team's initial offers.

"We have talked about a number of different things with (those agents)," O'Dowd said.

The Rockies remain hopeful that reliever Rafael Betancourt will accept their one-year deal of around $5 million. He has until 10 p.m. tonight to make a decision. His Type A free agent status and age (34) are working against him landing a multi-year contract elsewhere.

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