Cubs Insider · Mar 1, 2020
Prospect Update: PJ Higgins Playing His Way Up the Ladder This Spring
One of the early highlights of Cubs spring training has been the play of catcher PJ Higgins. We have written plenty about Higgins the past four summers, so his emergence does not come as a total surprise. The Cubs selected the versatile defender in the 12th round of the 2015 draft and he’s pretty much been a one-level-a-year guy ever since.
Higgins played a mix of second and third base in college at Old Dominion, then did the same his first year as a Cub at Mesa and Eugene before entering the catcher conversion program that fall in instructs. He quickly displayed a good pop time and began to develop the ability to call a good game at South Bend and Myrtle Beach.