Iowa Cubs manager Marty Pevey has been around the game of baseball his entire life, playing professionally for 13 seasons before transitioning to a coaching career. After working at every level across various organizations, Pevey joined the Cubs in 2009 and has served as manager at Triple-A Iowa since 2013. Long story short, he’s seen a few players come and go in his day.
So it’s worth noting when Pevey, who is helping to direct traffic over at the Cubs’ alternate site in South Bend, is really wowed by something he sees from a young prospect. He offered up thoughts on several of the Cubs’ top farmhands during a conversation with Tommy Birch of the Des Moines Register, most of which were pretty standard fare and offered little to get excited about.