Cubs select RHP Trevor Megill from Padres in Rule 5 draft

It wouldn’t seem likely that a team expecting to contend for a postseason spot in 2020 would make a Rule 5 selection, and the Cubs are presumably such a team.

But here we are. The Cubs selected righthanded reliever Trevor Megill, a 26-year-old righthander who has been in the Padres organization for the last three years after being San Diego’s seventh-round pick out of Loyola Marymount in 2015. He’s had Tommy John surgery that kept him from making his pro debut until 2017. Here’s a long interview with him from our SB Nation Padres site Gaslamp Ball, done last July.

Megill is 6-8, so he’ll certainly stand out in spring camp, presuming the Cubs don’t trade him to another team before then. Last…