Money, money, money….oh no we may not control Moustakas in 2017?!?! Boo freaking Hoo. Getting off to a hot start in April can stay with a team all year long, just ask the 1993 Phillies about that theory.

The fact is that as a prospect you’re either going to be a AAAA player, a Stud, or look like a potential journeyman after getting your first 500 MLB at bats. Sometimes you can wait until a player turns 25 and the guy still comes up and needs time to adjust or ends up overwhelmed. My point is the Royals have nothing as far as fan support, jersey sales, and excitement other than “watch out for our farm teams” or “watch out for us in 2013″. Why not let the kids play and make the rest of baseball take notice this year?

Put Moose and Hosmer on the corners, take the lumps, and make the entire league follow you out of pure curiosity. What’s the downside losing 95 games? Oh wait that’s the norm. So what if Moose hits .217 and Hosmer hits .221 both guys have major league makeup and winning resumes. They’ll be fine either way. If anything it can only help to speed up their development.

Play Dyson and Cain together in the outfield together and platoon Francouer and Gordon in rightfield. Send Blanco, Maier (lol as he leads the team in batting this spring), and Cabrera away for extra bags of chalk line. What you’ll see is creative speed on the base paths that disrupts pitchers and catchers concentration with young power in the box waiting to capitalize on their mistakes. God forbid the Royals add excitement to the team for the fans and young kids in the stands. No instead they’ve got to make sure we still have small contracts in 2017. Give me a freaking break. If this where 1958 the best talent would be on the field. Instead it’s 2011 so they’ve got to watch their investment portfolio and escalating slaries.

Play the best talent and winning will solve everything else. You can’t tell me that the Royals wouldn’t be the most talked about team in April if they started both kids at the corners this season.

Short of holding someone out until mid-July, you can’t guarantee they wont land in the top 17% without really fussing with options and things like that.

Also, gotta consider that almost 200 players made their debut last year, some of which racked up some big service time (Heyward, Austin Jackson, Ike Davis, Mike Leake, even Chris Heisey and other scrubs). Early June is a calculated risk to avoid Super Two status.

What the Royals might do anyway, if they think they can get him signed to an extension, is bring him up in late April and worry about the additional year of arbitration later or try to buy it out altogether. They just have to weigh the pros and cons…do they want to pay a little more down the line to ensure he gets a big enough dose of major league pitching in 2011, ideally prepping him for 2012, or are they concerned about payroll in 2014?

If I had to guess, my hunch is about 70% that he’ll be up before June and 30% during June.

That’s a separate issue… if you delay their clock that long, you can avoid ‘Super 2′ arbitration eligibility.