https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/cubs-minor-league/page/21/?d=7enhttps://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/cubs-minor-league/cubs-winter-top-prospects-rankings-11-james-triantos-r430/2023 Season Review Let's get this out of the way first: James Triantos has, arguably, the best hit tool of any prospect in the entire Cubs system. We can place a few other players in the conversation, but Triantos has repeatedly proven his ability to get his bat on almost any baseball thrown t...430Fri, 10 Nov 2023 13:14:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/cubs-minor-league/destination-the-show-episode-12-r434/We cover the Rule 5 draft and more in the twelfth episode of Destination: The Show.  0:00 Intro 4:00 Craig Counsell to the Cubs 10:14 Kala'i Rosario wins the AFL Home Run Derby 14:32 Rule 5 - what is it? 18:35 What happens when a player is drafted? 21:00 How common is it to find a...434Thu, 09 Nov 2023 21:02:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/cubs-minor-league/cubs-winter-top-prospects-rankings-12-jefferson-rojas-r422/2023 Season Review At the outset of the 2023 year, Jefferson Rojas got his (predictable) assignment in the Arizona Complex League. As an 18-year-old with only 45 games in the Dominican Summer League, it would have been expected to have Rojas settle into Arizona for his first season and then he...422Thu, 09 Nov 2023 13:16:00 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/cubs-minor-league/cubs-winter-top-prospects-rankings-13-matt-mervis-r420/2023 Season Review Matt Mervis showed up in South Bend in 2022 a changed man, it appeared, from the player we saw in Myrtle Beach in 2021. Moving quickly through South Bend, Tennessee, Iowa, and the Arizona Fall League, many believed in the offseason; Matt Mervis would get a shot at either fir...420Mon, 06 Nov 2023 15:14:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/cubs-minor-league/cubs-winter-top-prospects-rankings-14-bj-murray-r414/2023 Season Review B.J. Murray entered the 2023 season as a prospect who had already shown that perhaps MLB teams slept on the Bahamian in the 2021 draft. A 15th-round selection out of Florida Atlantic University, Murray had a great season in two stops, Myrtle Beach and South Bend, in 2022. P...414Sun, 05 Nov 2023 13:10:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/cubs-minor-league/brett-bateman-provides-potential-on-base-skills-and-gold-gloves-r418/Brett Bateman grew up in baseball. His father is the head coach at Augsburg University in St. Paul and has been coaching for most of his son's life.  "I've always been around the game. I remember as a little kid, going to the Metrodome, being a batboy on the field. Cheering in the stands. B...418Fri, 03 Nov 2023 12:58:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/cubs-minor-league/cubs-winter-top-prospects-rankings-15-daniel-palencia-r412/2023 Season Review Daniel Palencia's 2023 is similar to our #16 ranked prospect, Luke Little. Much like Little, Palencia entered the 2023 season as a member of the starting rotation. Making five starts in Tennessee, Palencia had some ups and downs in his first 15 innings. While being able to hit...412Fri, 03 Nov 2023 12:18:00 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/cubs-minor-league/cubs-winter-top-prospects-rankings-16-luke-little-r409/2023 Season Review Entering 2023, Luke Little was still being deployed as a starting pitcher in the Chicago Cubs organization with the hope that one day, he could be a part of the rotation. After four starts in South Bend, however, Luke Little's trajectory was changed rapidly when he was moved...409Thu, 02 Nov 2023 14:17:00 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/cubs-minor-league/cubs-winter-top-prospects-rankings-17-michael-arias-r408/2023 Season Review Michael Arias has had a strange, fun, and winding route to becoming a top-20 organizational prospect. Originally signed as a shortstop by the Toronto Blue Jays, the Cubs scooped up Arias post-Covid to turn him from a shortstop into a pitcher. Since then, Michael Arias had no...408Wed, 01 Nov 2023 14:14:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/cubs-minor-league/cubs-winter-top-prospects-rankings-18-josh-rivera-r405/2023 Season Review Headed into the 2023 draft cycle, Josh Rivera, an infielder with the Florida Gators, wasn't on anyone's draft board as a possible top-100 selection. A 22-year-old junior this season, Rivera had posted fine, albeit unimpressive, lines over the course of two full SEC campaign...405Tue, 31 Oct 2023 12:12:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/cubs-minor-league/cubs-winter-top-prospects-rankings-19-cristian-hernandez-r403/2023 Season Review Cristian Hernandez was once considered to be a massive international free-agent coup by the Cubs. Despite coming a bit later than anticipated, Hernandez was given a $3m bonus in the winter of 2021. Coming with massive expectations, Hernandez has struggled to hit those lofty co...403Mon, 30 Oct 2023 15:10:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/cubs-minor-league/cubs-winter-top-prospect-rankings-20-luis-vazquez-r402/2023 Season Review Very few Cubs prospects had their prospect star rise as much throughout the 2023 season as Luis Vazquez did. A player with whom very few were acquainted, Vazquez ended the season as the de facto shortstop in Iowa despite starting the year in Tennessee as a repeater. A strong...402Fri, 27 Oct 2023 15:15:02 +0000