Cubs 2016 #7 Prospect

[Cubswin11]

Saw the #6 voting closed Thursday and Tim said to get another poll up if he didn't. So here's #7

 

#1: Gleyber Torres

#2: Willson Contreras

#3: Albert Almora

#4: Ian Happ

#5: Billy McKinney

#6: Eloy Jimenez

[Some Guy]

Been voting Underwood since last round. He's so young for where he's at in his development, and his ceiling seems very high.

[craig]

Really hard to sift here, but I went Cease. Cease and DelaCruz have higher ceiling than Underwood, for me. Using the "which would you more mind losing", I think I'd be more disappointed to trade DelaCruz or Cease than Underwood or Edwards, but that's just gut feeling.

 

We know that even mid/back-rotation guys cost a lot, and make a huge difference. During regular season, the quality of the 30 starts by #4 matter as much as the 30 by your #1 or #2. So, paying $32/2 and a high draft pick for Lackey. So if Underwood could basically fill Lackey's mid-back rotation slot in a couple of years as a minimum wage guy, and perform at a high level, that would be very valuable.

 

But I'm going with Cease in hopes that he can both stay healthy and figure out how to command his potentially plus-plus fastball and curve, and improve his change to pretty decent. Very fast with movement, that's not easy to find.