Bill Mitchell

The Royals consistently search for hidden gems in the draft, especially targeting raw athletes with good makeup traits that they can mold into winning ballplayers.

The Arizona and Florida Complex Leagues have been going for roughly six weeks, and interesting prospects have begun to emerge.

Baseball America regularly publishes an organization report for each of the 30 MLB clubs.

Every Monday morning, we highlight 10 players who stood out to us based on their underlying Statcast metrics. Data will usually be through Saturday of that week, but may include some data from Sunday games. These are not full scouting reports, but often serve as good early indicators of prospects who might be ready to break out or are demonstrating MLB-ready skills.

Ever since Triple-A adopted the split-schedule format for playoff purposes, all MiLB full-season leagues operate on a first half/second half format. And Sunday marked the end of the first half across the minor leagues.

The MLB Draft combine annually presents an opportunity for the top players in the class to take part in on-field workout activities including batting practice and bullpen sessions.

At the close of each month during the season, Baseball America prospects expert Geoff Pontes presents rundowns of the high-performing pitchers and hitters from the past 30 days as a way of keeping tabs on how the game’s top prospects are faring over the course of 2026.

Notable risers, fallers and new additions to our Kansas City Royals Top 30 MLB prospects rankings for July 2026.

The Top 100 is updated, and so are each team’s Top 30s. For the final time before the draft, Baseball America has tweaked each organization’s prospect lists to reflect risers, fallers, graduations and injuries

Earlier this month, Baseball America updated our Top 100 Prospects, as well as Top 30 lists for every MLB team. Now, we’re back with more of a big picture look with an updated ranking of all 30 farm systems from a talent perspective (you can find our preseason edition here ).