Thursday, August 29, 2013

Cubs are well on their way to a championship team

Right now, as we all know, Chicago baseball isn't exactly easy to watch. The Cubs are brutal and the Sox might be even worse. The good news for the Cubs, unlike the Sox, is that their farm system has jumped from one of the worst to one of the best in the matter of just a few years. The rebuilding project on the North Side has been a massive success thus far with the acquisitions of solid prospects such as CJ Edwards and Mike Olt through trade and a bevy of big name international prospects. It all started with Jorge Soler awhile back and continued with the drafting of Javier Baez (one of the best prospects in the league), Albert Almora, and slugger Kris Bryant who, after a slow first couple games, is now making a really big impact on the low A levels. Junior Lake has panned out so far, but only time will tell. Starlin Castro is a question mark, nobody really understands what's going on with his slump but the coaches seem confident he'll figure it out, so I'm confident too.  Anthony Rizzo is only going to continue to improve, and Travis Wood has been a pleasant surprise this year.  It's not gonna happen over night, but I gotta say the Cubs are starting to look less like they'll have simply a winning team in the future and more like this is the start of another dominant MLB franchise - farm system, management, the works.

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