Just after Tampa Bay made David Price the No. 1 overall selection in the 2007 Major League Baseball draft, Mike Moustakas was sitting on a couch in his Northridge, Calif., home as the Royals were about to make the next pick. Surrounded by family, his future wife, Stephanie, and friends, he playfully tapped one of us buddies and said, “Hey, dude, I might get drafted right here.”
When he actually was, Moustakas felt shock amid the celebration and, as he said last year, couldn’t immediately process that “This really just happened.”
That sense of wonder in one way or another has underscored his fascinating tenure as a member of the Royals organization, with whom he has spent his entire adult life in the most human of ways.