Powerful first baseman Eric Hosmer, the third overall pick in the draft, texted Pat Murphy when the...

Powerful first baseman Eric Hosmer, the third overall pick in the draft, texted Pat Murphy when the deadline passed and said he was coming to school. But MLB granted Hosmer and the Royals an extension and the parties agreed to a $6 million deal.

I call BS. What good is a deadline if you provide extensions?

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Uh oh, Hosmer's a liar and a backstabber

I hope Dayton has a good sit down and talk with him about the expectations that the organziation has of its star players. Perhaps he can bring in motivational speaker Jose “Hoagy” Guillen — undoubtedly someone to whom Hosmer looks up.

Dayton, if you could just do me a favor a minute and SHUT YOUR PIE HOLE!

OMG Banny. FWIW I am only crdtng u w/3 runs allwd bc of DDJ OMFG

by devil_fingers on Aug 20, 2008 11:23 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

If both parties want a short extension, then why not?

No harm, no foul.

This is just my opinion. I could easily be wrong.

by NYRoyal on Aug 20, 2008 12:17 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Cause it kinda undermines the entire deadline

And encourages agents to not begin seriously negotiating until a week out.

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by RoyalsRetro on Aug 20, 2008 12:41 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

It doesn't undermine the deadline at all

The deadline forces the negotiations. If the deadline were so soft that it could be dragged out for days, weeks or months, then that would undermine the deadline. But extending it by minutes (who knows how long they extended it, maybe by as much as 30 minutes), then it only provides enough flexibility to actually get deals done. It certainly worked that way for the Royals and Hosmer. Looks like it probably worked that way for Pittsburgh and Alvarez too.

I don’t see how a 30-minute extension “encourages agents to not begin seriously negotiating until a week out.” If they were very strict with the deadline, would agents start negotiating weeks earlier? Why? Most are going to wait until near the deadline in the hopes they’ll get the other side to blink. Minutes-long extensions don’t hurt anything. They just help finalize deals.

This is just my opinion. I could easily be wrong.

by NYRoyal on Aug 20, 2008 12:50 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'd be interested to know the "official" story

Is MLB confirming that an extension was granted? I’d kind of put this “news” in the category of “My best friends, boy friends, sisters, hairdresser saw Ferris pass out at 31 flavors last night”. But maybe I’m wrong. Or biased against the validity of news in the blogosphere.

Another thing that’s confusing: wasn’t the story that Hosmer was agreeing to this deal against the advice of Boras. If Hosmer was texting at midnight that he was going to ASU, who in this arrangement was the pushing for the last minute deal to go pro? Something’s fishy all the way around…

by Big Guy on Aug 20, 2008 1:59 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

or ASU is making it sound better for themselves.....

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by 306008 on Aug 20, 2008 2:07 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I thought at the time...

…that the Royals and Hosmer agreed in principle to something close to $6M at the deadline, but they hadn’t exactly landed on the final figure, so MLB granted them a little extra time. MLB has no interest in making in a rock hard deadline, as long as the two sides are genuinely close. If the two sides both want just a little more time, then why wouldn’t MLB give it to them? Sounds reasonable to me. Being ultra-strict with the deadline serves no purpose. I guess the one purpose it would serve is to make sure deals are done by 12:00 instead of being done by 12:30. But why is that important?

This is just my opinion. I could easily be wrong.

by NYRoyal on Aug 20, 2008 2:40 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

It doesn't make much sense why they would give

Hosmer and KC a extension and not Crow and the Nats. Knowing Pat Murphy’s past I wouldn’t be surprised if he was full of it.

Every fight is a food fight when you’re a cannibal.
-- Demetri Martin

by kcscoliny on Aug 20, 2008 4:45 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I just read on BA the Royals did get an extension for Hosmer

if I was the Nats I would be pissed.

Every fight is a food fight when you’re a cannibal.
-- Demetri Martin

by kcscoliny on Aug 21, 2008 10:13 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

maybe

they weren’t even close to a deal.

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by KC Chris on Aug 21, 2008 10:22 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah, I think the Royals and Hosmer were close and just needed a little time to finalize

And I think the Nats and Crow were not particularly close. I think if the Nats asked for a short extension, they would have gotten one. There’s no reason they’d say yes to the Royals (and probably the Pirates) but no to the Nats. I doubt the Nats asked for an extension.

This is just my opinion. I could easily be wrong.

by NYRoyal on Aug 21, 2008 1:09 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs