While the specter of a truncated Spring Training or a shortened season still looms, and though free agency and trades are frozen, many parts of the offseason are chugging along—namely, the annual organizational talent evaluation and projection system number crunching.
Things are looking up for the Royals in general, which, granted, is not difficult considering their back-to-back 100-loss campaigns recently. Baseball America—arguably the top publication when it comes to prospects and the minor leagues—ranked Kansas City’s farm system as fifth overall in the league. Additionally, the ZiPS projections are out, and it thinks that Bobby Witt, Jr.