As I come to the final installment of this draft series, I can reiterate enough how difficult it must be to identify baseball talent. The NBA draft is now only two rounds and is largely an exercise in lottery picking. NBA teams are not so much looking for a player who can step in and contribute right away as much as they are looking for an 18- or 19-year-old who might develop into the next Kobe Bryant. Occasionally a team stumbles onto a diamond in the rough like Luka Doncic while a solid player like Fred VanVleet goes undrafted.
Who could the Royals have drafted in the 2010s?
