The Cubs might not be putting much money into free agency, but that doesn’t mean we can’t put a little of our own time and effort into some prospects. At the risk of further objectifying them beyond what is inevitably the case even without posts like this, CI has tracked prospects like stocks, handing out tips on hot ones to watch moving forward.
Several of the young players we talked about last year turned out to be good investments. Brennen Davis, Cole Roederer, Chris Morel, and Kohl Franklin were among a group of 19-year-olds that took the system by storm in the middle of last summer.