A year ago at this time, the consensus around baseball was that the Royals had one of the worst farm systems in baseball. They had zero top 100 prospects on the Baseball America list for the second year in a row, and ESPN’s Keith Law shut them out of his list as well.
Well one year later, things are slowly improving. Law has two Royals on his list this year, with outfielder Khalil Lee at #55 and pitcher Daniel Lynch at #53. Law resides in Delaware and likely got a good look at Lee in Wilmington last year, notes that the 21-year old showed “tremendous growth on all sides of the ball”, cutting down his strikeout rate last year.