I asked around for suggestions for a title for this "Sunday Notes" column and reader cmkeller suggested "Royal We-ekender", a delicious pun on "the royal we", so we'll go with that for awhile.
- Dayton Moore has talked about extending the window past 2017, which is why he acquired Major League-ready players like Jorge Soler and Nate Karns and signed free agents to multi-year deals. But if free agents Eric Hosmer, Mike Moustakas, and Lorenzo Cain leave next year, will there much money left to replace them?
The Royals have nearly $100 million committed to ten players in 2018.