Chicago Cubs, Corey Patterson (Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images)
Long before the current group of Chicago Cubs stars led the team to a title, we often placed our hopes in other prospects, such as Corey Patterson.
Before Theo Epstein assumed control of the baseball operations department at Clark and Addison, the Chicago Cubs fared pretty poorly in developing impactful homegrown prospects. From 2005 on, only a handful of the team’s top draft picks made substantial contributions to big league clubs.
Some of those guys include Tyler Colvin, Andrew Cashner and – the final pick of the Jim Hendry era, two-time All-Star shortstop Javier Baez, who looms as the best pick of the former regime.