With the MLB Draft set for this coming week, it might be a good time to look back on some of the Chicago Cubs‘ best draft picks in recent memory. Here, we’ll look at five of their best first-round picks of the past 25 years.
Chicago Cubs: Jon Garland
Jon Garland was the Cubs’ first pick, and tenth overall, in the 1997 draft, out of Kennedy High School in Granada Hills, CA. Though he was not a superstar in the major leagues, he put together a very respectable 13-year major league career, and thus his inclusion on this list.