Bobby Witt, Jr. is the third-best prospect in all of baseball, according to the Baseball America off-season 2022 rankings. They named him 2021 Minor League Player of the Year, but ranked him behind Orioles catcher Adley Rustchman at #1 and Mariners outfielder Julio Rodriguez at #2. It is the second-highest ranking for a Royals prospect ever, behind Alex Gordon’s #2 ranking in 2007.
The Royals placed two other prospects in the top 50 with catcher MJ Melendez at #42 and first baseman Nick Pratto at #43. Pitcher Asa Lacy, who ranked ahead of those two in the top ten Royals prospects rankings by Baseball America, was not ranked in the top 100.