Opinion

The MLB season came to a close Sunday, and everyone is now wondering what's to come in the next few weeks. As the hot-seat heat slowly turns up, we're going to give you a few bold predictions. 

Zack Greinke's original team, the Kansas City Royals, just won a World Series, helped in no small part by his decision to talk his way out of town five years ago.

Now that all the actual baseballing is over, we can finally turn our attention to the possibility of a Washington Nationals star heading to the Bronx and transforming the New York Yankees.

The city of Kansas City and the Royals organization has had 30 years to plan a World Series parade. You can bet the party will be epic on Tuesday, when the World Series winners return home for their championship parade. 

The Kansas City Royals defeated the New York Mets to win the 2015 World Series, which means these two teams can now join the rest of the league in figuring out their future plans.

While the Royals might take a little bit of time to celebrate, the reality is the offseason has officially started. With 29 teams looking to improve upon their performance from this past season, Kansas City doesn't have a lot of time to rest on its laurels. 

The champagne is scarcely dry in the visitor's clubhouse at Citi Field, and already the MLB hot stove is crackling to life.

While the Kansas City Royals and their fans bathe in bubbly and confetti, 29 other squads are looking eagerly to the offseason and the raft of available free agents, many of whom will switch uniforms in the coming months.

Yes, the annual winter meetings are still several weeks away, and a number of marquee names won't cut deals until the new year.

It will be a celebration fit for a king Tuesday in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, as the city honors the Kansas City Royals and their World Series victory.

Given how much the fanbase and city as a whole have rallied around the Royals over the past two years, Tuesday's parade will be raucous from start to finish.

The Kansas City Royals won the World Series on Sunday night in the most appropriate possible fashion given how they've played this season, somehow erasing a two-run deficit in the ninth inning before winning Game 5 in the 12th inning, 7-2.

It took three decades, but the Kansas City Royals are once again world champions. The Royals ruined Matt Harvey's brilliant start with a ninth-inning comeback and then scored five runs in the 12th to earn a 7-2 victory and take home the title Sunday night.

Baseball season is over. The offseason can now begin.

The Kansas City Royals are World Series champions for the first time in 30 years, and business will soon be underway on Nov. 6 when free agency commences in Major League Baseball.

MLB free agency is bound to be hectic. Plenty of big names are looking for big-time contracts and could possibly find a new home in the process.

Let's take a look at some early rumors that we'll need to keep an eye on as the winter meetings draw near.