The Royals are stumbling towards what looks like another 100-loss season, leaving fans to look to the future for better days ahead. The expectation is that the Royals won’t be anywhere near contention until at least 2021, and more likely, 2022, when prospects currently in the minors are established big leaguers and the club has more financial flexibility.
In the meantime, the front office has to determine which players currently in the organization will be part of the future, and which are just stopgaps to ensure the team fulfills the obligation of a 162-game schedule. Matthew LaMar wrote a bit earlier this year about who he thinks is part of the future, and who isn’t, but I wanted to look at how many players currently in the organization we should expect to be on the 2022 club, three seasons from now.