Royals offer Alex Gordon one-year, $15.8 million deal

The Royals have extended a one-year qualifying offer, valued at $15.8 million, to left fielder Alex Gordon.

Gordon, the face of Kansas City's world champion club, declined a player option valued at $13.75 million on Wednesday.

"There's no doubt in any of our minds that we want Alex, and Alex wants to be here," Royals general manager Dayton Moore said. "But again, we're not going to take advantage of any relationship. Alex has done everything for us each and every day, and we've given him everything we possibly could.

"From the very beginning, when we signed him to a long-term contract, people said, 'You need to let him have another year [before offering a long-term deal].' … Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. This time it did."