Welp, doubt we see any spring training articles about BB getting "in the best shape of his life".

BB

We should all just forget about extending Hosmer. Boras is taking him to free agency, and that'll be the end of it.

Agreed...no way I see Hosmer even considering staying. He loves him some NYY's

Luckily, he plays the most easily-replaced position, unless he goes all Pujols on us.

We can't lose Hosmer. So we lose Hosmer and Shields in same year were back to a 60 win team.

:spock:

uhhh...

He only has 2 years of service time. He isn't a free agent until 2018. Also, first basemen aren't hard to replace.

Belly's got it covered.

lol right, atleast we got 4 more years or so

To have extended Hosmer, we would have needed to have Brauned him in year one, month one.

Even then, I don't know that Boras would have let him accept it.

Could be.

This will be one of those situations where it's going to be tough to fault the Royals too much when the player walks, but, make no mistake, some dipshits will scream about things "being the exact same."

It will be disappointing, but not exactly like years past.

What?

Right. The real question will be what they have available from within to step into his role.

I mean, people still scream about things being exactly the same and how the Royals immediately trade off all their "good" players when they get too expensive... despite the fact KC has extended every internal "good" player beyond his first FA years since Moore got here.

So yes, of course, the first time Moore fails to get that done, I'm sure the boo birds will jump all over it.

That's been GMDM's strength, that and building a bullpen. If people don't realize that, they're not paying attention.