Kansas City Royals 2021 MLB Mock Draft Roundup

We've been tracking MLB mock drafts from various baseball analysts, writers and bloggers via our 2021 MLB Mock Draft Database.

The Kansas City Royals have the 7th pick in 2021 MLB Draft and our Kansas City Royals 2021 MLB Mock Draft Roundup compiles picks for the Royals in recently-updated mock drafts.

The picks listed below are sorted by when the mock draft was updated (date in parenthesis) with the most recent mocks listed first.

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MLB.com - Mayo (6/2)
Kahlil Watson, SS, Wake Forest (N.C.) HS

I started hearing some buzz about him creeping up into the Top 5, as he's gone off at the plate of late.

The Athletic - Law (5/27)
Brady House, SS, Winder-Barrow (GA) High School

House or Jobe here, most likely, with House as their preference. I've heard Jobe with them a few times, although it surprises me because the Royals seemed to have abandoned high school pitching up top after the four prep arms they took in the first two rounds in 2014-15 yielded just 0.1 WAR and, so far, only three big-league appearances.

MLB.com - Callis (5/26)
Kahlil Watson, SS, Wake Forest (N.C.) HS

Many clubs don't believe Watson actually will last this long. If he doesn't, the Royals could turn to Rocker or whichever high school shortstop is left on the board.

ESPN - McDaniel (5/11)
Brady House, SS, Winder-Barrow H.S. (GA), Tennessee commit

House is in play for the Tigers and Orioles, but this is his sweet spot as he's very likely to go in the top 10 picks. I wrote up his heavily scouted matchup with top 2022 prep arm Dylan Lesko and why teams are concerned about his contact rate against pro-level stuff, but not really anything else. The parallels to Bobby Witt Jr. (dynamic, tooled-up infielder with huge power, three years of national scouting track record) are compelling, and those two would strike a nice balance with the Royals' recent run of college pitchers with top picks. It's unlikely, but it should be mentioned that the Royals would do backflips if Rocker somehow got to this pick.

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