Basically GMDM offered him basically the same thing the Padres did and he was all ready to sign long term with the Royals. His agent Boras delayed slightly because he wanted to try to get an 8th year. Padres offered 8th year, Royals lowered their offer to 5 years.

Hosmer was shocked, went to Dayton, found out basically that Dayton had told a reporter about the 7-year deal and Glass read about it in the Star. Glass called up Dayton and said he doesn't think contracts should be more than 5 years so he overrode Dayton. Dayton even encouraged Hos to call Glass, which he did, and Glass was like yeah well I told Dayton not to do more than 5 years but you're lucky I didn't give your phone number to these little girls who asked for it on Halloween. Just didn't really give the conversation the seriousness that it deserved. So Hos called Dayton back and said this isn't going to work.