Royals Rumors: Potential landing spots for Eric Hosmer in free agency
POTENTIAL LANDING SPOTS FOR ERIC HOSMER – KANSAS CITY ROYALS
I have to include the Kansas City Royals in here because of course they’re in play! No one had much faith that the Royals would retain Alex Gordon back in 2015 and they did just that, so until Hosmer officially puts pen to paper with another organization, the Royals are definitely in the running.
For every one of those Royals rumors out there about another team being interested in Hosmer, another one surfaces about Kansas City being determined to keep him. Jim Duqette of MLB.com predicted where he thought every key free agent would go and he had Hosmer staying with the Royals.
There was also news days later about how the franchise would be “trying hard” to keep both Hosmer and his best buddy Mike Moustakas. That hype didn’t last for long, however, as Jerry Crasnick later tweeted that the team was becoming pessimistic about keeping the band together.
The #Royals have grown increasingly more pessimistic about re-signing any of their big free agents -- Hosmer, Moustakas or Cain. If Hosmer goes, they could shift attention to several lower-priced 1B options: Duda, LoMo, Alonso, Moreland, Lind, Jaso, et al.
— Jerry Crasnick (@jcrasnick) November 14, 2017
The Royals are in this sweepstakes until Hosmer is wearing another jersey in front of a podium, but it’s looking less and less likely that he comes back. It’s worth noting, however, that we all said the same thing about Alex Gordon and look what happened there. Anything is possible.