A lot of talk Monday about how this year's Major League Baseball draft was the most anticipated, ever, for some teams like the Kansas City Royals. It makes sense, considering the main plot for Dayton Moore, J.J. Picollo and the rest of the Royals scouting department was to zero in and then deliver with Bubba Starling - the local phenom.
You have to wonder, though, when the odds of a draft pick, 1) making the big league club, 2) making a meaningful impact at the big league level and 3) surpassing all of that and living up to the hype of being a top-five guy, are less than stellar, is the simple romanticism of a team picking a local kid really enough to justify the sudden onslaught of anticipation and expectation?
