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It wasn’t the major league debut for two of the club’s hottest prospects KC Royals fans are eager to see. Nor was it the spectacular introduction to the highest minor league level Omaha fans hoped for.
But the first Triple-A game Bobby Witt Jr. and Nick Pratto played certainly wasn’t a disaster.
A long time coming—Witt, MLB Pipeline’s No. 1 Kansas City prospect, and Pratto, ranked fifth by Pipeline, had been battering Double-A pitching for weeks while calls for their promotion to the next level permeated social media—the players’ introduction to better pitching Monday suggests they’re comfortable with the move.