Yahoo.com’s Jeff Passan was the first to report the deal:
With the Duffy extension, Kansas City Royals general manager Dayton Moore continued his quietly good winter given owner David Glass’s mandate that he had to cut payroll. Moore also repeatedly insisted that he would try to extend some of the core players set to become free-agents after the 2017 season.
By extending Danny Duffy, he accomplished both goals. Kansas City Star reporter Rustin Dodd tweeted the structure of the deal:
Here are the year-by-year numbers on the Duffy extension:
2017 – $5.