Recently, we discussed both MLB Pipeline and Baseball America dropping the Chicago Cubs’ farm system in their rankings to the 19 to 22 range among the 30 MLB orgs.
When you graduate several top-100 prospects, don’t draft especially high (or have extra picks), trade away a little at the deadline, and don’t have a breakout year from a large number of prospects, then you’re going to see your farm system ranking fall, as the Cubs’ did. They had generally been considered in the 8 to 12 range coming into this season.
Just to button it up, and highlight where the Cubs will be heading into the offseason, ESPN’s Kiley McDaniel agrees with now consensus-ish assessment, ranking the farm system 19th in baseball (down from 10th before the season):
“The Cubs graduated Matt Shaw and Cade Horton this year after Pete Crow-Armstrong, Michael Busch, Jordan Wicks, Ben Brown, and Daniel Palencia last season.
This current prospect crop is headlined by players who have already debuted (Moises Ballesteros, Owen Caissie, Kevin Alcantara) or are in the upper levels of the minors (Jefferson Rojas, Jaxon Wiggins, Jonathon Long, Brandon Birdsell). I liked their recent draft crop, led by RF Ethan Conrad, LF Josiah Hartshorn, CF Kane Kepley, and RHP Kaleb Wing, and think there’s enough talent at the lower levels to make a next wave of talent.”
Not a scathing writeup, so that’s good.
The reality, though, is that the Cubs’ concentration of talent in the minor leagues is still more heavily weighted toward the upper levels. That’s not a bad thing – nearer-ready prospects are better than farther-away prospects, all else equal – but it does mean that if the Cubs don’t do a really good job at restocking/developing at the lowest levels over the next year, they could see their farm system fall even further by this time next year.
The Cubs need some additional breakouts. The Cubs need some huge IFA hits, of the type they’ve just not had in a very long time. The Cubs need to keep drafting well. And the Cubs also probably need to pull off some clever offseason trades to add impactful prospects without negatively impacting the 2026 roster. But that’s a conversation for after the playoffs.
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