You probably don’t need a refresher course on the list of Royals who will be free agents after the 2017 season. Dayton Moore certainly doesn’t.
Eric Hosmer is on the list. So is Mike Moustakas, Lorenzo Cain, Alcides Escobar, Wade Davis, Danny Duffy and Jarrod Dyson. And so on.
Moore, the Royals’ general manager, has essentially spent months thinking about this, he says, long conversations and organizational meetings, planning, strategy and contingency options.
“For three years now,” Moore says.
In the winter of 2017, a significant chunk of a championship core will be set to walk into the open market of free agency.