"If you think there’s a third weapon in there somewhere, he would be a second-rounder; if not, he’s in the big bucket of good college pitchers who project as relievers and fit in rounds 3-5." The future closer at 7.
Well put. I give them credit for believing in their ability to develop pitching, but the jury is still out. What concerns me most is the relative value of the guys they passed on when making the picks.
So they drafted middle of the rotation pitchers when they could have drafted middle-of-the-order hitters. This will either be an excellent draft for the Cubs or one people will talk about for a long time as a case in point of outsmarting oneself.
It’s okay to just stop at “I don’t know anything about this stuff”. He's thrown 53 innings of college baseball and a TJ surgery already under his belt.
I don’t think I really want the Cubs to go after Soto. The cost is too high and I don’t trust the Ricketts to keep the payroll needed to surround him with good players after the trade cleans out the farm.