Sometimes it feels like the word "dream" and the Kansas City Royals go together like oil and water. For years it's seemed like they've been cursed to be nothing more than a small market team that must work with a small market budget at all times.
However, in recent years as they've inched closer to and now begun to enter the contention conversation, it appears their "little brother" financial stature is starting disintegrate. They've signed their face of the franchise in Bobby Witt Jr. to a massive 11-year extension, while also re-upping with some key veterans like Salvador Perez, Seth Lugo and Michael Wacha with other big names potentially still to come in Vinnie Pasquantino and Maikel Garcia.