Free-agent 3B Mike Moustakas has reportedly agreed to a one-year, $6.5 million deal with the Royals, despite rejecting a one-year, $17 million qualifying offer in October and using most of this winter asking for a $100 million contract.
The Mets made an offer to Moustakas in late January worth more than he ended getting from the Royals, according to multiple MLB insiders. At that time, I heard only the Mets, Royals and Braves were in contention to sign him. My hunch is the Mets offered the same the two-year, $17 million deal they ended up giving to Todd Frazier, because Frazier signed with the Mets less than two weeks later.