Although Keith Law’s pre-season top-100 prospect list had a totally different look as far as Chicago Cubs prospects go, we’re back to the version we’ve now see a couple times before already (MLB Pipeline and Baseball America).
This time, it’s ESPN’s Kiley McDaniel who ranks just two Cubs prospects in the top-100, and they’re the two you’d most expect:
51. Moises Ballesteros, C83. Jaxon Wiggins, RHP
And that’s it.
You already know the story by now with Ballesteros, who’d be much higher on a list like this if the evaluator believed he was a future big-league-caliber catcher. The bat is legit. The ability to play even a couple times a week behind the plate remains the question.
The command-related reliever risk is, for now, what keeps Wiggins down a bit on McDaniel’s list:
“Wiggins has had a pretty similar walk rate — between four and six per nine innings — going back to his time at Arkansas, after which the Cubs took Wiggins as the 68th pick in 2023. He didn’t pitch in 2023 as he was recovering from elbow surgery, and he has been ramping up his innings the past two years as his stuff has returned.
He sits 95-99 and hits 101 mph with huge extension from a very high arm slot; it’s a plus pitch and he throws it about 70% of the time. His cutter/slider hybrid (25% usage) is above average while his curveball and changeup are each used under 5% but both flash above-average potential. That said, the command questions have continued. Wiggins is at least a good multi-inning, multirole reliever who has plenty of talent to also pitch in the late innings, but there’s a chance he can become a starter if he can be in the zone a bit more and trust his offspeed stuff more.”
None of that is wrong, though I’ll note with optimism that Wiggins’ strikeout rate fell from 14.2% in his pro debut season to 11.5% in his second year, despite pitching at higher levels, and despite a three percentage point jump in his strikeout rate. Those are very good signs.
As is customary on these lists, Pirates infield prospect Konnor Griffin and Brewers infield prospect Jesus Made are both at the very top (literal, in Griffin’s case, and number three for Made). It will not be fun to have to face those guys for years to come. Cardinals infield prospect J.J. Wetherholt is consistently ranked near the top of these lists, too, and there are a boatload of others from the division in the top-50. It’s just a loaded, loaded prospect division right now for every farm system outside of the Cubs. Lots of work to do.
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