It’s quiet this afternoon at the San Diego
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Padres’ complex, with just a dozen fans lingering as Eric Hosmer shags balls in the outfield, picks them up, carries a bucket to the pitcher's mound, and then takes batting practice.
Carrying buckets of balls may seem to be a simple gesture, one that Hosmer has done thousands of times in his life, but when you’ve just signed the richest contract in franchise history - $144 million over eight years - isn’t money supposed to buy privileges?
Hosmer has little interest in the baseball benefits afforded its rich. You walk into the Padres clubhouse, and his locker is tucked smack in the middle of a row. There’s non-roster pitcher Jonathan Aro to his left, outfielder Jose Pirela to his right, and no spare locker on either side that’s usually provided the team’s star.
This day, he even volunteered to be in the last hitting Dak Prescott Jerseys group just to accommodate his teammates who had tee times. When the batting practice ended, and his teammates scampered to the clubhouse, Hosmer was the last man to walk off the field, plopping down in the dugout.
Hosmer, now sporting a more conservative version of the modified mohawk replicated by hundreds of Kansas City's youth, covered plenty of ground in a 30-minute chat, from his love of his old city, honoring a fallen teammate, the odd free agent market and his new league, surroundings and role - that of franchise catalyst.
He doesn’t know everybody’s names yet, let alone where he may be living, but he’s a Padre now. They agreed to pay him $105 million for the first five years of his contract, providing an opt-out clause after 2022. The Royals also offered the highest contract in franchise history, but their contract proposal was back-loaded, and didn’t include an opt-out.
“I went into the process open-minded, and honestly, I was open to going back to Kansas City,’’ Hosmer tells USA TODAY Sports, “and try to continue what we built over there. I thought there was a good Tom Brady Jerseys
chance of going back. It would have been my dream to be the guy to wear the one jersey my whole career. I thought it would be nice because of what we started over there, the legacy we had. It just didn’t happen the way I thought it would.
“I’m not going to sit here and plead my case now, but it was just too much for me to leave here on the table and too good of an opportunity not to go this way. I loved everything about
Kansas City, my time there, the fans, the passion and energy they brought.“I’ll say thank you to all of those people, but I’ve got to move onto a new chapter in San Diego, and hopefully be part of something just as special as we had in Kansas City.’
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