It seems as if I’ve been dethroned from my rule as “guy who has the longest Royals prospect list” when the folks over at Royals Farm Report (shout-out to our writer Patrick Brennan, Alex Duvall, and Drew Osborne) decided to go 100 deep. I built up from 20, to 45, to 60, and then peaking at 80 on last years pre-season list. So in a way, I’m going to take credit for loosening this ketchup bottle for them. For this list, I’m going to go to 25.
You can find my past lists here:
State of the Farm and Organization
I’ve said it quite often (if not on these digital pages then on Twitter) that the Royals weak farm system isn’t a by-product of their World Series runs, but instead an issue of poor drafting over the past decade or so.