There are times where it feels like a new interesting and exciting young player in the league gets a big contract extension from his team on a weekly basis. It is a trend that has made an impact all over the league, in big and small markets. One place this has not yet visited is Baltimore, where up to this point there has been nothing brought to fruition.
The latest of the big contract extensions came on Monday when the Kansas City Royals announced a contract extension with their shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. that could run for as few as seven years, if Witt exercises an opt out with close to $150 million already banked, and could go for as many as 14 years and $377 million, if the Royals exercise a three-year option available to them if the contract reaches its full 11 years.