It’s really easy to go overboard romanticizing the sensory experience of watching a baseball game. The smell of the grass, the roar of the crowd, the crack of the bat. But let me tell you, the crack of Bobby Witt Jr.’s bat on Monday afternoon was something special.
Witt, the son of a 16-year MLB veteran and the No. 2 pick in the 2019 draft, is one of the top prospects in baseball. (MLB.com ranks him No. 7, while Baseball Prospectus has him at No. 9.) The 20-year-old shortstop turned heads with his play at the Royals’ alternate training site last summer and earned an invite to big-league camp this spring, where he’s picked up six hits in 17 at-bats.