In a cavernous room back in Kansas City, Royals general manager Dayton Moore and his brain trust went down the team’s draft board on Monday evening and hardly believed their luck.
Now 17 picks had passed and University of Florida pitcher Brady Singer was still available for the Royals at 18. He’d won the College World Series with the Gators a year ago. He’d become Baseball America’s national college baseball player of the year. He’d been chosen the Southeastern Conference’s pitcher of the year.
All this three years after Singer, a 6-foot-5, 210-pound right-hander from Eustis, Fla.