Bobby Witt Jr. is a unicorn baseball player. He’s immensely talented, hugely skilled, and just so happens to seem to be a great clubhouse presence and inherent leader of people. The Kansas City Royals haven’t seen anything like him since peak Zack Greinke at the very least, and there are a bunch of statistics that you can point at to show his brilliance—my current favorite is that Witt is on pace to accrue more than half of Alex Gordon’s career WAR total by the end of this year. Witt, as a reminder, just turned 24 years old.
One of Witt’s most impressive tools is his speed.