Cubs Minor League & Prospect News Archives

Todd JohnsonDecember 26, 2015

Members of Theo’s First Draft Class Should Be Coming into Their Own in 2016

In 2012, Theo Epstein and Jason McLeod made their first selections for the Cubs in the MLB Draft. The Cubs…

Todd JohnsonDecember 25, 2015

Sometimes, days in the winter just drag on and on and on. There’s no baseball, the Bears are terrible, the…

Michael CanterDecember 22, 2015

Top Of The First Historically, the bulk of available free agents are signed by Christmas, but this year the market…

Todd JohnsonDecember 20, 2015

“Is it better to be loved or feared?” Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince Leadership is a funny thing. To describe it is difficult,…

Michael CanterDecember 18, 2015

Top Of The First It appears that the heavy lifting has been done as far as the construction of the…

Todd JohnsonDecember 11, 2015

There were a few surprises today as Major League Baseball held its annual Rule 5 Draft for both the major…

Todd JohnsonDecember 8, 2015

Once I calmed down from the Lackey signing Friday evening, I began to focus on the length of the deal –…

Todd JohnsonDecember 6, 2015

When we began this series, we thought the outfield would be the weakest of the positions as far as high-end…

Todd JohnsonNovember 30, 2015

Kris Bryant and Kyle Schwarber may have ruined it for all the Cubs’ draft picks. It did not take either…

Todd JohnsonNovember 29, 2015

When Theo Epstein came aboard as the Cubs President of Baseball Operations in the fall of 2011, most of the…