With the minor league season behind us, national evaluators and writers will soon reflect on the year and the next phase — that of list-making — will commence. As Todd Johnson and others have alluded to on these pages, the Cubs will not have prospects littering the tops of these lists as they have over the past four years. In fact, their farm system is likely to be ranked among the bottom five in all of baseball.
However, that does not mean the system is devoid of talent or that the Cubs are doomed. It’s simply a byproduct of the team making the playoffs three years running, with more likely to come.