The Kansas City Royals will be an interesting team to watch in next week’s Rule 5 Draft, which takes place on Wednesday at the winter meetings in Orlando.
Kansas City currently has 38 players on the 40-man roster, so in theory, they have space to add talent if they like the pool of candidates. But like all 29 other teams, the Royals also left some talented minor-leaguers exposed to the possibility of being poached.
It’s always difficult to predict who will and won’t be taken in the Rule 5, because teams know they have to carry those players on the active roster all year or immediately ship them back to their former clubs. But a pair of MLB Pipeline site experts believe there’s one Royals player who is particularly enticing.
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