Hi there. It’s been a minute! My name is Bryan, and I used to be a regular in this space, breaking down the minor leagues. I’ve been out of the writing game for the last year, and while I’m set...

As I have started to process the offseason that lies ahead for the Chicago Cubs organization, I realize more and more how important it is to document the precise spot this organization finds itself. I think I want to do...

I'm overdue for a full-scale system recap from 2023, and I want to do by creating an All-Star team for the best performances at each position. The rules here are simple: only minor league performance is recognized, and the best...

Brett has already touched on the Tennessee Smokies winning the Southern League championship last night, but listen. We need to wrap our hands around good vibes today, so excuse me for a little more conversation about the specific game and...

The Tennessee Smokies, now one of the most top-prospect-laden teams in the history of the Cubs franchise (I don't think it's hyperbole to say that, but your mileage may vary), won Game 1 of their best-of-3 opening round playoff series...

Had a different introduction planned and written, but the minor league news of the day is too strong to start anywhere else. Pete Crow-Armstrong's promotion is, to me, a celebration of the Cubs moving out of a rebuild that netted...

191 plate appearances. Two doubles. That, my friends, is the ENTIRE extent of extra-base hit damage that left-handed hitters have done to Luke Little in the minor leagues. The Cubs are calling up Little today, their 2020 fourth-round pick, and...

On September 9, 2019, a short-handed Cubs team in the thick of a playoff race called up a homegrown first-round pick to fill in a spot they had not anticipated would be necessary a month before. Nico Hoerner was summoned...

The Cubs system right now is in a place where most of the top 15 prospects are guys that are starting to knock on the door of higher levels. It's very fun to contemplate on the ways that the tip-top...

You see, eight is more than five, so what you can deduce from the title of the post is the Cubs farm system -- and many of their top prospects -- had a very fine Tuesday evening. Let's dive in......

It should be said first and foremost, and Brett already did, that the reason Caleb Kilian is up today is the very taxed Cubs bullpen and his readiness to eat innings. It's a big league need right now, and Kilian...

You all know that I love talking about the entire system, down to bench players and relievers, but sometimes the on-field play demands we focus on the guys at the top of the rankings. And this week has very much...

The strangest thing about the niche I have for this site is what to say when prospects get traded. As much as I enjoy writing about players from the ground floor all the way to Wrigley Field, I'm a Cubs...

(This is part two in a short, two-part series on a couple significant minor league free agents on whom the Cubs will have to make surprisingly difficult decisions - either at the Trade Deadline, in the coming months, or at...

So the Cubs might be floating publicly that they're waiting until the eleventh hour, but Mike Tauchman's catch signaled one thing to me: this team isn't selling. So if they're considering the opposite now -- functioning as buyers -- I...

Minor league free agency is not a date on the calendar that Major League teams are ever too worried about. Typically, you already had to make tough choices about the best prospects when their Rule 5 eligibility came up, and...

The ways baseball can flip on itself never cease to amaze. I thought the story of Monday's loss was that Nico was slumping so hard that he wasn't even swinging on fastballs in the zone. And I know the story...

Someone said to me this weekend after one of the Cubs losses: "I bet you're excited to have a few more prospects to cover after this deadline." No sir, no I am not. https://twitter.com/cubprospects/status/1680749575580139520 Honorable Mention: Today's 5 stars has...

The Cubs made clear Monday, during the second day of the 2023 MLB Amateur Draft, that it's impossible to peg them down into one preferred strategy. You might have gone into this year thinking the Cubs preferred pitchers, liked overslot...

It's a disease of Cubs fandom to be unable to not think about 2016 all the time, but I'll be damned if I didn't think of the mid 2010s last night when the Cubs announced Maryland infielder Matt Shaw as...