When a woman asked me at Cubs Convention which affiliate Jerrick Suiter had been assigned to, my initial reaction was to wonder silently whether such a player was in the system at all. A quick perusal of my long-term memory and a prompt from Myrtle Beach Pelicans broadcaster Noah Cloonan reminded me that the Cubs had plucked Suiter from the Pirates during the minor league portion of the Rule 5 Draft in December.
That’s where I’d heard of him, though it was only a result of having edited Todd Johnson’s piece on the Cubs’ selection of Trevor Megill in MLB portion of that draft.