Selected as the 40th overall pick in the 2018 MLB Draft, Kris Bubic has been everything that the Kansas City Royals could have hoped for when they called his name. The former Stanford product was named to the All-Pac 12 team as a junior with a 2.62 ERA in 15 starts. In his final season in Palo Alto, Bubic threw 86.0 innings and struck out 101 batters while allowing just 32 free passes.
The Royals selected five pitchers with their first five picks of that draft, in what is becoming well-known as the “fab-five”. This group also includes Brady Singer, Jackson Kowar, Daniel Lynch, and Jonathan Bowlan.