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Six Cubs Land in Keith Law’s Ranking of the Top 100 Prospects

January 29, 2014 9:25 am By Neil 8 Comments

Keith Law's week long look at the minor league system continued Wednesday morning with his list of the top 100 prospects in the game and to no surprise the Twins' Byron Buxton topped his ranking. Six of the top players in the Cubs' system made it into his ranking of the top prospects in the game. Javier Baez (7), Kris Bryant (15), Jorge Soler (26), Albert Almora (28), C.J. Edwards (67) and Arismendy Alcantara (71). Each player moved up in Law's ranking from a year ago. Javier Baez jumped … [Read more...]

Keith Law Ranks Cubs System Fourth Best in Baseball

January 28, 2014 10:27 am By Neil 87 Comments

The Cubs farm system received more accolades on Tuesday morning when Keith Law released his ranking of the 30 farm systems. Baseball Prospectus recently placed the Cubs behind the Twins and ahead of the Pirates for the second best system in the game. Keith Law thinks the Cubs have the fourth best system in baseball behind the Astros, Twins and Pirates and ahead of the Red Sox. Keith Law made an excellent point about building a successful organization and it all starts with scouting and player … [Read more...]

Baseball America’s Top 30 Cubs’ Prospects

February 16, 2009 1:00 am By Neil Leave a Comment

Baseball America's 2009 Prospect Handbook made its way to the bookshelves last week. After spending the off-season tracking the different publications and their thoughts on the Cubs' minor league system, the industry standard put their final stamp on the top prospects of the Cubs' organization leading into Spring Training. BA's Top 10 was released on January 13th but the other 20 names are just as important as the first 10. For instance, Brandon Guyer has moved ahead of Tyler Colvin as the Cubs … [Read more...]

Minor League Report – 04/18/08

April 18, 2008 12:05 am By Raul Barraza Leave a Comment

The Iowa Cubs had a better week and so did the Tennessee Smokies. The Daytona Cubs lost three in a row before beating the Palm Beach Cardinals in 10 innings on Thursday, 1-0. Sean Gallagher had a good week, despite losing on Thursday night to New Orleans, 5-1. Gallagher gave up 3 runs on 7 hits in 6 2/3 innings. The Smokies lost on Thursday as well but Tyler Colvin doubled and Ryan Harvey hit his second home run of the year in the loss. Here is the latest from down on the farm.... … [Read more...]

Still Working

January 24, 2008 1:30 am By Neil Leave a Comment

With a little less than three weeks before pitchers and catchers report on February 13th, Jim Hendry told the Tribune he is not done with his roster. There are additions the Cubs would like to make before Spring Training according to statements made by Hendry over the last week. The same names continue to be mentioned on a daily basis without any movement. Could Hendry be on the verge of adding a couple of players to the mix or will the Cubs start Spring Training with their current 40-man … [Read more...]

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