Cal Jones was selected by the Royals in the 6^th round (193^rd overall) of Friday’s 2016 MLB June Amateur Draft. A centerfielder and Alabama commit, Jones hails from Dadeville, Alabama, where his 2016 high school numbers look like a video game – an average of .516, .593 on-base percentage, 10 home runs, 41 RBI’s, 55 runs and 10 steals in 122 at bats. He joined Dave O less than 48 hours after his selection to talk about being the first player from his hometown of 3,000 drafted in 28 years, choosing pro baseball over college, Bo Jackson, the happiness of being a Royal and lots more! (Photo Courtesy Cal Jones)

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Hunter Dozier was Kansas City’s first round pick in the 2013 Draft and has spent the first two months of 2016 tearing the cover off of the ball at Northwest Arkansas and Omaha (.357/.562/.919 with 12 HR’s). A consensus mid-season Top 10 Royals prospect, Dozier plays both third base and the outfield, and finds himself knocking on the Kansas City door. He recently joined Dave O to talk about how a high school broken collarbone might have been a blessing in disguise, his college days at Stephen F. Austin, the excitement of being KC’s first round pick, the highs of the minor leagues and lows of the minor leagues and lots more! (Photo Courtesy Minda Haas Kuhlmann)

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Corey Toups was selected by the Royals in the 15^th round of the 2014 draft out of Sam Houston State, where he was a teammate of current Northwest Arkansas slugger Ryan O’Hearn. A middle infielder for High A Wilmington, Toups was a Pioneer League All-Star at Idaho Falls in 2014 when he led the entire league in on base percentage (.453). He followed that up with Lexington in 2015 as the league leader in runs scored (75) and 10^th in batting average (.291), as well as 4^th in the Royals system in stolen bases (31). He first caught up with Dave O the day after being drafted in June of 2014 and recently joined Clubhouse Conversation again to talk about each of the last two years, his progress on the guitar and with Rubik’s Cubes, playing for Jamie Quirk and lots more! (Photo Courtesy Mary Lay/Lexington Legends)

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Mauricio Ramos begins the 2016 season at Northwest Arkansas (AA) where he’s hitting an impressive .364/.457/.820 through May 5^th. Signed by the Royals out of Colombia in August of 2010, Ramos helped lead his home country to a win in the qualifying rounds of the World Baseball Classic this spring, the first such time Colombia has become WBC eligible (2017). The third baseman recently joined Dave O to talk about baseball and life in Colombia, how much the WBC means to the country, how the Royals signed him after the Tampa Bay deal fell through, what he’s working on most and lots more! (Photo Courtesy John Owen/Northwest Arkansas Naturals)

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Carlos Garcia begins the 2016 season with the Northwest Arkansas Naturals playing second, third and the outfield. Originally signed as a free agent from Venezuela, the switch-hitting Garcia led the Royals minor leagues in stolen bases last year (42) while slashing .346/.360/.707 at Lexington and Wilmington. He recently joined Dave O to talk about how KC discovered him (and talked his Dad into letting him sign!), the experience he had at the Royals Dominican Academy, how he’s learned English so well, adapting to American culture and lots more! (Photo Courtesy John Owen/Northwest Arkansas Naturals)

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