Watching Bobby Witt Jr. play at Kauffman Stadium is nothing short of exciting. One, because, well, IT’S BASEBALL, BABY! Two, because we almost always have to dream more when it comes to top prospects.
After their selection in the draft, prospects usually take between three and five years to get to the big leagues—if they do at all—and they spend those years zooming around minor league stadiums out of sight and out of mind. The closest they get to the big leagues is in Spring Training, and it’s just not the same watching a prospect in Surprise as it is watching a prospect in the same stadium you saw the Royals walk off a World Series game in.