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Chris Singleton, the son of a Charleston AME Church shooting victim, was one of 9 Cubs released today: https://www.thecubreporter.com/03242019/cubs-release-nine-minor-league-camp Ryan Court, INF Austin Filiere, 1B-3B (Cubs 2017 8th round draft pick - MIT) Evan Marzilli, OF Carlos Ramirez, RHRP Jose...

Arizona Phil predicts the outfielders at all four levels: https://www.thecubreporter.com/comment/262547#comment-262547 The catchers: https://www.thecubreporter.com/comment/262548#comment-262548 And the infielders: https://www.thecubreporter.com/comment/262549#comment-262549 He also doesn't think Da...

I watched a lot of Campbell last year and his fastball command was not good. Always possible that he changed something up and has improved there, but I really don't like those types if it can be avoided. He’s at 4 walks, no HRs, and 23 hits allowed in 30+ innings this year and 44 Ks. That suggests ...

https://twitter.com/soxmachine_josh/status/1106724150402523136?s=20 That’s Isaiah Campbell, the college RH I mentioned a couple posts up, throwing an 85 MPH changeup. I like him as a multi-inning reliever type more than a pure SP, but that’s not really a knock. 21 YO senior I watched a lot of Campb...

Opening day for college baseball!

Kevin Made is a Dominican SS with a wiry, athletic frame. Has shown good ability to hit in games despite being skinny and is expected to get a bonus that surpasses $1 million. https://www.instagram.com/p/BoW7xo_Hflb/?utm_source=ig_embed Ben Badler also said the 2019 class is very talented and the m...

Isn't the rule change basically going back to the way it was done before? I could swear I remember a bunch of two sport athletes getting mlb contracts in the past. Not only 2 sport guys, but draft prospects in general started getting mlb contracts right out of the chute. They best ones were demandi...

Kyler Murray chooses football (or at least is making a public show of it). A's really effed that one up. We all knew they messed up. It was super high-risk/high-reward and they got burned. I think you could defend the selection at the end of the 1st round, but not with the #9 pick in last year's ML...

Some of it may be deference to this FO's success in drafting 1st round college bats, but I don't recall any other recently drafted players taken in the range of Nico that debuted in the top 100 of a national publication the next year . I mean, Ian Happ was taken 9th overall in 2015 and was only ran...

Kyler Murray chooses football (or at least is making a public show of it). A's really effed that one up.

Some of it may be deference to this FO's success in drafting 1st round college bats, but I don't recall any other recently drafted players taken in the range of Nico that debuted in the top 100 of a national publication the next year. I mean, Ian Happ was taken 9th overall in 2015 and was only ranke...

Tom, I still haven’t seen confirmation that Estrada had surgery. If he did have surgery on the elbow, it wasn't TJS. He's participating down in Mesa right now, and I think he was throwing on the backfields as late as June last year before being shut down (perhaps later, but that's the latest I can ...

Hoerner isn’t quite as advanced as previous college draft picks the Cubs have made, but he’s moving quicker than many expected. Despite making just 17 plate appearances at Low-A South Bend before having his season cut short, there’s a good chance he’ll start the season in High-A Myrtle Beach , wher...

Damn, he’s a big dude (in a good way) already for a 18-19 year old. Looks like he can still add some decent, good weight to his frame too. https://twitter.com/jasonpennini/status/1087408866755637249?s=21 Whoa. Dude has been in the gym this offseason! He was MUCH skinnier this past summer. No horsef...

CaliforniaRaisin wrote:Nico Hoerner came in at 86 on the BP top 101 prospects list. Miguel Amaya was in the next 10.

Also, Kyler Murray somehow ranked at 101.

Yeah, I wouldn't put him that high, but as the 14th pick in the draft and a guy that received a large overslot bonus, I get it.

Cubswin11 wrote:Damn, he’s a big dude (in a good way) already for a 18-19 year old. Looks like he can still add some decent, good weight to his frame too.

Whoa. Dude has been in the gym this offseason! He was MUCH skinnier this past summer.

CubsWin wrote:AZ Phil has posted the 2019 Instructs Roster. Interesting to note, the only 2018 DSL player to get invited was OF Carlos Morfa. No 2018 IFA guys are participating.

Boo! I was craving some Richard Gallardo action.

https://www.mlb.com/news/2019-top-10-catching-prospects-in-mlb/c-302736382 1. Joey Bart, Giants (2021) 2. Francisco Mejia, Padres (2019) 3. Keibert Ruiz, Dodgers (2020) 4. Sean Murphy, A's (2019) 5. Danny Jansen, Blue Jays (2019) 6. Ronaldo Hernandez, Rays (2021) 7. Miguel Amaya, Cubs (2021) 8. Dau...

MLB.com listed the hardest thrower in each system and picked Marquez: Cubs: Brailyn Marquez, LHP, (Cubs No. 4) Marquez's $600,000 bonus represented the most money given to a left-handed pitcher during the 2015-16 international signing period, and the Dominican has since emerged as one of the Cubs' ...

Bear Cub wrote:Cubs Spring Instructs. started yesterday.

Thanks for the reminder. I had spaced that they pushed back the Instructs a few months this year. Here's hoping we get some glowing reports from AzPhil. I would specifically take one about Richard Gallardo sitting 95+.

After the great Chatwood debacle I’ll never truly trust spin rate meaning much or that we as an org know how to make it work and translate it to on field success like the Astros certainly are. But cool to see with one of our prospects grading so well against big leaguers, I guess. https://twitter.c...

BA's Cubs Top 10 Prospects are out: https://www.baseballamerica.com/teams/1004/chicago-cubs/organizational/?year=2019 1. Nico Hoerner 2. Miguel Amaya 3. Brailyn Marquez 4. Cole Roederer 5. Brennen Davis 6. Adbert Alzolay 7. Paul Richan 8. Cory Abbott 9. Justin Steele 10. Aramis Ademan I do like tha...

https://twitter.com/BleacherNation/status/1071086476681797632 freakin hilarious brett, really owned them! the addition of a 6-WAR first baseman is so cardinal lol. DORKS. Yeah idk what he’s going for there. Other than I forgot Mozeliak is a bow tie wearing goober. He was clearly playing on the &quo...

I had blocked Jose Albertos from my mind until I read that blurb on him and got depressed again.