Five Players to Watch: Rookie and Short Season-A Ball This is the first in a series of articles highlighting some of the players not noted on off-season prospect lists. The players are listed in alphabetical order, and as they are presently listed on official rosters. Inclusion in this list does not necessarily reflect where each [...]
Cubs Down on the Farm Report – 02/11/13
February 11, 2013 By 66 Comments
With the Winter League seasons over and Opening Day for the Minor Leagues weeks away, it’s time to step away from reporting and move to more feature articles. As a preview to Spring Training, the Down on the Farm Reports returns to a feature entitled … Bubble Players and Bubble Busters Each year, a number [...]
Keith Law’s Top 10 Cubs Prospects for 2013
February 7, 2013 By 13 Comments
The week-long look at the Cubs’ system continues with Keith Law’s list of the top 10 prospects in the Cubs’ organization. Keith Law is very high on the Cubs’ system and recently placed five players from the system in his ranking of the top 110 prospects in the game. Javier Baez (31), Albert Almora (33), [...]
MLB.com’s Top 21 Cubs Prospects for 2013
February 7, 2013 By 38 Comments
The week long look at the Cubs farm system continued Wednesday when Jonathan Mayo and MLB.com published their rankings of the top prospects in the National League Central. As expected Javier Baez topped MLB.com’s Cubs list with Albert Almora, Jorge Soler, Brett Jackson and Arodys Vizcaino rounding out the top five. Seven of the 21 [...]
Five Cubs Make Keith Law’s List of Top Prospects in the Game
February 5, 2013 By 6 Comments
Keith Law released his ranking of the top 100 prospects in the game on Tuesday morning, along with the ten that just missed the list. Five of the top players in the Cubs’ system made Keith Law’s ranking of the top 110 prospects in the game … Javier Baez (31), Albert Almora (33), Jorge Soler [...]
Keith Law Ranks Cubs’ System Fifth Best in Baseball
February 4, 2013 By 13 Comments
ESPN’s Keith Law began his week long look at the prospects in the game by releasing his ranking of the farm systems on Monday … and the Cubs came in at number five on his list. The Cubs system took positive steps forward over the past year and Law likes the additions that were made [...]
Cubs Down on the Farm Report – 02/04/13
February 4, 2013 By 13 Comments
Winter League Wrap-up A long and busy winter season wound down as the Caribbean World Series and Australian Baseball League playoffs opened on Friday. Altogether, 52 players that belonged to the Cubs system at one time or another in the 2012 off-season participated in winter ball. The notable performers, along with a recap of both [...]
Cubs Down on the Farm Report – 02/01/13
February 1, 2013 By 1 Comment
Caribbean World Series Preview Three and a half months of baseball in the sunny climes of the Caribbean have reduced the number of teams still playing from 28 to just four. The double round-robin begins on Friday, with the best record winning the series. Here is a preview of the Caribbean World Series.
Cubs System Ranked Tenth by Minor League Ball and Other Prospect News
January 29, 2013 By 7 Comments
The Cubs’ farm system was front and center on Monday as several of the top players in the system were ranked among the best prospects at their position in the game. John Sickels released his 2013 Baseball Farm System Rankings on Monday afternoon … and the Cubs system made a significant jump from a year [...]
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