In less than a week, the Royals’ pitchers and catchers will report to spring training, and Eric Hosmer and Mike Moustakas remain free agents.
This is not a sentence I expected to type in 2018.
In a short interview with The Star on Tuesday, Royals general manager Dayton Moore reiterated that his club was still pursuing Hosmer. Yet the market for Moustakas appears to be a mystery.
The Royals have mostly remained on the sidelines, in part because of their status as a rebuilding club, in part because they prefer Hosmer to be part of that rebuilding plan.