Around this time last year, I dropped the inaugural Cubs Insider top prospect lists. It was a huge project that tallied nearly 8,000 words to rank 40 players on two separate lists that were governed by strict rules. I’ll be honest with you, I debated long and hard about whether to post the second edition of the CI Top 20s this year considering we haven’t watched live minor league baseball in nearly 18 months.
But I can’t let an annual tradition fizzle out with just one iteration, so I’m back with a revamped pair of rankings There will again be two lists, one for pitchers and one for position players, though I had to eliminate the requirement that I had seen the player either live or via MiLB.