In one of the best summaries on option years I’ve read in a while, this KC Star column talks about how the players who end up on the Royals team may be the best, but may be the ones who are the best and no longer have options. Jorge de la Rosa is out of options so it probably means that Brian Bannister and Zach Greinke, both of whom have options remaining, are probably fighting for the fifth spot in the rotation. And Bannister has three option years remaining so that could play into things as well. You have a similar situation in the pen where you’ll probably have more decisions made not on how the player does this spring, but again, whether they’re out of options or not.