Before settling for a one-year pact with the Kansas City Royals, third baseman Mike Moustakas reportedly turned down a good amount of money somewhere else.
According to Sam Mellinger of the Kansas City Star, Moustakas rejected a three-year, $45 million offer early in the offseason from the Los Angeles Angels, who turned around and signed Zack Cozart to a similar contract instead.
Moustakas’s agent Scott Boras denied the report.
“There was never a multi-year contract offer made to Mike Moustakas by the Angels or any other major-league team,” Boras said Friday.
Perhaps it’s face-saving, and hindsight is 20-20. It’s understandable why Moustakas would have turned such a deal down at the time. It was the same thinking that went into his decision to turn down a qualifying offer — he expected the market to work as it had in years past and felt he was being lowballed. Obviously, that did not work out at all.
