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Here we are once again. It’s the first week of June and time once again for Major League Baseball’s amateur player draft.

As Royals fans have become accustomed, their team is waiting once again to spend millions of owner David Glass’s money on a top-5 overall pick.

Fans must wonder who GM Dayton Moore will select when it comes time for the Royals to add to their who’s who of recent high draft picks including: Aaron Crow, Eric Hosmer, and Mike Moustakas.

So who will the Royals target with the fourth overall pick in tonight’s draft, another top tier arm or a position player who can help this team in the not-so-distant future?

Here are the two most likely players to be getting a call from Moore later this evening:

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Coming into the 2010 season, most Royals fans were wondering how much longer they’ll have to wait until some of the organization’s highly touted prospects will make their way to Kansas City.

The team has started the season with a 9-14 record, and is in a last-place tie with Chicago in the AL Central. And while the team’s record may be discouraging to most Royals fans, this team could easily be five wins better if not for horrendous bullpen pitching through the first four weeks of the season.

So let’s take a look at a few players, none of them named Aaron Crow or Mike Montgomery, who could very well turn the Royals fortunes around sooner rather than later in 2010.

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