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Who the KC Royals will select with their first pick in the 2021 amateur draft is anybody’s guess, just as it should be with the July 11 start of the event still almost three weeks away. The question won’t be answered until the club actually makes the first of their 21 selections (KC has a Competitive Balance B pick after the second round).
Kansas City gets its first crack at the talent pool with the seventh pick; by then, Pittsburgh, Texas, Detroit, Boston and Baltimore will probably have swept up the bulk of such highly-touted prospects as Vanderbilt pitchers Kumar Rocker and Jack Leiter, catcher Henry Davis from Louisville, and a quartet of shortstops—prepsters Marcelo Mayer, Jordan Lawlar and Brady House and Wake Forest’s Kahlil Watson—off the board.