Later tonight, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred will step up to a podium inside a studio in New Jersey to speak the name of teenagers and young men. In those very few upcoming hours, Bobby Witt, Jr. will likely be a Royal. The probability isn’t 100%, but the outcome seems inevitable.
From then on, this Royals front office will seal some sort of fate and require some sort of responsibility: to develop Witt into what he could possibly be. I disagree that he’s nearly as good a prospect as Alex Rodriguez, as some of the recent hype has portrayed.