Fenway Park is not in Colorado...

Mark Teixeira is probably the No. 1 Free Agent on the market right now, and a perfect fit for the Boston Red Sox... but two other big names have been floated out there as well:

Free Agent 1B/3B Garret Atkins and OF Matt Holiday (FA '09) of the Colorado Rockies.

I just want to remind everyone that both of these players, despite being 28 and typically posting lines like .300 BA / 20-30 HR / 100-120 RBI... their home/away splits tell a very different story.

Holliday, since 2004

HOME: 1353 AB, .357 BA, 84 HR, 307 RBI, 106 doubles, 16 triples
AWAY: 1303 AB, .280 BA, 44 HR, 176 RBI, 82 doubles, 7 triples

Atkins, since 2003

HOME: 1192 AB, .337 BA, 44 HR, 236 RBI, 82 doubles
AWAY: 1242 AB, .260 BA, 45 HR, 195 RBI, 68 doubles

Holliday missed a few games this year due to injury and finished with a mediocre (for him) .321 / 25 / 88 line. His splits aren't as drastic as Atkins' but his power is cut in half when you take him out of Coors Field. He is a righty, so one can hope that he would make use of the Monster, but Scott Boras is his agent, which means he's not likely to move until he can test the free agent waters in 2009... and, like he's done already with Varitek, Boras will ignore the negatives and focus on Holliday's overall numbers and avoid the fact that he's different hitter away from Colorado.

Signing Holliday would also mean that Jason Bay would be traded, or Coco would be traded and Drew, Ellsbury and Bay would all share time in RF and CF... but that starts to get complicated.

As for Atkins, his splits are much more dramatic - trust me I had to sit him on my fantasy team every time he hit the road. His numbers are also down this year (286/21/ 99) from the norm, which is surprising since this was his free agent year and he knew he was playing for a new contract and had Ian Stewart breathing down his neck.

Like Teixeira, bringing Atkins here will require shifting the infield around and possibly trading Mike Lowell. Atkins is much younger and is also a righty, so he could be a nice fit in Fenway and at third base... but if the road splits are an indication of what we can expect, I think I'd rather spend the money on Teixeira.

Lastly, this goes against my point but it's worth mentioning, here are the regular season numbers for both guys from their interleague visit in 2007:

Holliday -- 5-13 (.385), 2 2BM HR, 2 RBI
Atkins -- 4-12 (.333), 2 2B, HR, 5 RBI

Bottom Line: Both guys are young, and overall, both guys can hit... but are either of them a better fit than Teixeira?

I say no... what do you guys think?