The MLB Draft starts on Sunday, July 17. In the next two weeks as we lead up to the draft, I’ll have a series of profiles of players that the Cubs could take with the seventh pick in the first round.
The Cubs reward for going 71-91 last year is that seventh pick, which is the earliest they’ve picked in the draft since they took Kyle Schwarber with the fourth pick back in 2014. The last time they had the seventh pick was in 1976, when they took Herman Segelke. The other time they had the seventh pick, they took Scot Thompson in 1974.