The Chicago Cubs farm system – which may or may not be vastly improved, depending on whom you ask – is taking on elevated importance in the years ahead. I mean, an organization’s farm system is always important, but when you start going through a retooling process at the big league level and sell off everything short term for prospects, you’re doing so on the implicit understanding that those prospects are going to important for your next great team. That can be because they come up and contribute eventually, or because they, themselves, become pieces for big league trades.
In either case, the prospects are kinda a big story for the Cubs organization right now, so it’s wholly appropriate that the Cubs’ TV network is going to increase their coverage of the farm system. That is going to include a whole new slate of live games, just announced:
Make sure to catch more live broadcasts of the @Cubs minor league affiliates through the end of the season!@BCBSAssociation | https://t.co/e1X1oHHzDL pic.twitter.com/zsTYKhIhVB
— Marquee Sports Network (@WatchMarquee) August 16, 2021
The broadcasts, which will hit every full-season level of the farm system, begin this Thursday:
^Note that ten of the broadcasts are live, but the two this weekend are tape-delayed.Â