Kansas City, Mo. ? Waking up Thursday as a brand-new millionaire “feels pretty good,” says muscular Mike Moustakas.

But he thought that enrolling at Southern Cal with a baseball scholarship and no $4 million signing bonus from the Kansas City Royals would have been a hoot, too.

Maybe that explains why the top home run hitter in California high school history waited until 11 minutes before the deadline to make the decision that’s going to change his life and possibly transform the sports landscape for an entire city.

“I was confident if the deal wasn’t done, I’d be going to SC, and I was OK with that,” Moustakas said in a teleconference Thursday. Asked to clarify that he would have been just as happy going to college as joining the Royals, he said, “yes.”

But the husky 6-foot shortstop who set California high school home run records and hit over .500 his senior year also sounded delighted to be taking the next step toward his lifelong dream of playing in the majors.