On Tuesday evening, Mark Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times reported that Rays centre fielder Kevin Kiermaier is closing in on signing a lucrative multi-year extension with the club, worth more than $50-million. Bob Nightengale of USA Today later got a little more specific, adding via Twitter that the contract would be for $53.5-million over six years — $2 million more than Andrew McCutchen got from the Pirates when he signed an extension in 2012.