Here we are in the third week of January, and if you had predicted that eight of the nine Royals free agents - including Eric Hosmer, Mike Moustakas, and Lorenzo Cain - would still be unsigned at this point of the off-season, raise your hand. It has been a stunningly slow winter for baseball, with Wade Davis being the only one of MLB Trade Rumor’s top ten free agents that actually filed for free agency (Masahiro Tanaka chose not to), having signed so far.
At the outset of free agency, I took a look at potential suitors for Hosmer, Moustakas, and Cain.