KC Royals: Brady Singer pitching well in first minor league season
Continuing on with our KC Royals prospect posts, it’s time to take a look at last year’s first round pick Brady Singer, who is doing very well in Wilmington right now.
The Kansas City Royals are relying on their prospects to carry them back to the top of the mountain in the coming years and one of the biggest names in the farm system right now is Brady Singer.
Singer was the Royals’ first selection in the 2018 MLB Draft (18th overall) and fans were fortunate enough to watch him pitch in last year’s College World Series. The Florida native did well in his performances, but the Gators were eliminated before the championship.
Singer wouldn’t pitch for the Royals during the 2018 season, so the hype grew even larger for him heading into the 2019 campaign. He’s doing well so far, which is his first season as a major league baseball player, posting a 2.47 ERA and 1.191 WHIP in 43.2 innings thrown for the Wilmington Blue Rocks.
Brady Singer just had the best outing of his young @MiLB career.
— MLB Pipeline (@MLBPipeline) May 17, 2019
The #Royals' top prospect & top 2018 #MLBDraft pick whiffed a career-high 10 over 6 shutout frames with no walks (first time in career).
Live stats for all @Royals prospects: https://t.co/6fTVs576gl pic.twitter.com/nOcyt8DXK1
As the tweet above indicates, Singer is coming off the best outing of his career so far, throwing ten strikeouts and not walking a single batter. Oh yeah and he didn’t give up a run. That’s pretty impressive and definitely catches the eye of every Royals fan waiting for the future talent to arrive.
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The Florida product is going to play a huge role in the Royals rotation moving forward, assuming he continues to pitch this solid. He’s only 22 years old (turning 23 in August) and MIGHT get called up this September, but a 2020 call-up is probably more likely since this is just his first year in the majors.
The Royals did call up Brandon Finnegan during his first season, but the team was playing for a lot more. They won’t be in playoff contention come September, so why get the service time clock ticking on Singer when they don’t have to use him? Let him develop in the minors this season and bring him up next year if he’s ready then.
It’s been an extremely small sample size for Singer in 2019 and he’ll need more fine tuning this season before he’s ready to head to Kansas City. He’s pitched in eight games and has allowed two or fewer runs in four of them.
The hope is that Singer and fellow Wilmington teammates Jackson Kowar (who pitched at Florida with Singer) and Daniel Lynch all get called up roughly around the same time and can develop together. That would be very similar to what the Royals did years ago with their prospects and that turned out pretty well, I’d say.
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While Brady Singer probably won’t make it to Kansas City in 2019, that’s perfectly okay! He’s doing well in his first year in the minors and that’s a great sign for KC Royals fans.