As expected, the Chicago Cubs have signed another pitching prospect from the recent Tread Athletics Pro Day. Righty Cole Reynolds joins Jordan Goldmann as new prospects joining the system from Tread, where the orgโs new pitching exec, Tyler Zombro, came from.
Reynolds, 22, played college ball at Elon and UNC-Charlotte, though he did so in his earlier years largely as a two-way player, with it looks like a lot of focus on the positional side. It wasn’t until his senior year that he full converted to pitching-only (where he worked his way into becoming UNCC’s Friday night starter), and that timing may be what left him out of the draft or the initial wave of undrafted signings.
From there, it looks like he went to work at Tread, developed further, and that’s what got him signed by the Cubs. Kinda love that trajectory, as far as finding surprising upside goes. Being 6’5″ and 225 lbs doesn’t hurt, either.
Reynolds, like Goldmann, will head to minor league Spring Training, and you can think of him like any of the other college-aged pitching prospects who joined the organization following the 2024 MLB Draft (in terms of timeline, expectations, etc.).
We’ll see if that’s it for the Cubs from the Tread Pro Day. To that end, I do have some horrible news: that the knuckleballing Chicagoan, Kenny Serwa, signed with the Tigers. I really hope the Cubs don’t live to regret that!