Royals pitching prospect Foster Griffin was given two lists his senior year of high school.
Sports agents to consider on one — and those to stay away from on the other.
Griffin hadn’t asked for it. He had barely just wrapped his mind around becoming a prospect the previous summer, after hitting a 5-inch growth spurt that shot him up to his listed 6-foot-3 frame and helped him break the low 90s with his fastball. Even as a sophomore at The First Academy in Orlando, Fla., he assumed he would pursue golf because he didn’t have colleges offering him baseball scholarships yet.