BA, BP, Fangraphs, Keith Law & MLB Pipeline's Cubs' Top Prospects List

[craig]

The folks at MLB disagree with both you and I on Swarmer. He didn't make their top 30. And whereas we are two incredibly intelligent Cubs prospect experts, whoever put their list together can't exactly be an idiot. And yet, here we are.

 

I'd have Swarmer around 20, they had him lower than 30. I think that's because after the top 10 or so in this system right now, they're a lot of guys with high-ish floors but low ceilings or guys with upside who are totally unproven, or guys with upside coming off of injury, etc. such that they could be reasonably ranked in a variety of different orders.

 

Swarmer isn't off to a very exciting start with Iowa.

[CubsWin]

The folks at MLB disagree with both you and I on Swarmer. He didn't make their top 30. And whereas we are two incredibly intelligent Cubs prospect experts, whoever put their list together can't exactly be an idiot. And yet, here we are.

 

I'd have Swarmer around 20, they had him lower than 30. I think that's because after the top 10 or so in this system right now, they're a lot of guys with high-ish floors but low ceilings or guys with upside who are totally unproven, or guys with upside coming off of injury, etc. such that they could be reasonably ranked in a variety of different orders.

 

Swarmer isn't off to a very exciting start with Iowa.

Very true. However, this is his first go around at AAA (and there is this matter of the PCL and IL using the "juiced" MLB baseball for the first time this year with scoring and HRs being way up from the year prior). And there's his line from tonight's game.

 

6 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER (HR, go figure...), 1 BB, 6 K.

 

We'll see what he does from here.

[CubsWin]

Cubs now have 2 top 100 prospects on MLB's list. Hoerner comes in at 64 and Amaya at 81. If Ademan and Marquez continue on their current tracks, I expect they'd be added at some point this year, too.

 

http://m.mlb.com/prospects/2019/?list=prospects