Some Chicago Cubs prospect notes for your perusal today …
It’s quite a rarity, but it sure is fun (and telling!) when it happens. You may have noticed Josiah Hartshorn getting some run this spring in Cactus League games, having now appeared three times. The 19-year-old outfielder was drafted last year as an over-slot pick by the Cubs in the 6th round and has yet to make his professional debut. That’s right: a high schooler who hasn’t yet played in a Low-A or even ACL baseball game has been appearing in Cactus League games along-side, and facing, experienced professionals. Until this spring, he’d of course been training with the Cubs since last summer and participated in the bridge league after the minor league season had wrapped in Arizona. But no actual professional games yet for him, yet here he is getting these at bats. The games are fake, of course, but they are also useful for development and giving a tip of the cap to prospects who’ve earned the look. So for someone in Hartshorn’s situation to make it into THREE games already, including a start? That’s telling about how high the Cubs organization already is on the powerful, switch-hitting outfielder.Folks, this kid was drafted out of high school LAST YEAR. He hasn’t played a SINGLE official minor league baseball game.
Josiah Hartshorn making his first start in spring training for the Cubs. 19-year-old who was drafted last year out of high school. 106 mph single in his first at-bat pic.twitter.com/HDJBn0mO7M
— Aldo Soto (@AldoSoto21) March 7, 2026Phil on prospect Josiah Hartshorn pic.twitter.com/nB2xwHbNth
— The Cub Reporter (@thecubreporter) March 11, 2026 The Chicago Tribune has a set of minor league notes that includes a section on Josiah Hartshorn. Therein, we hear about his offseason development and his maturity from Cubs farm director Jason Kanzler: “He looks like a different human, the athleticism is striking. He’s got this young innocence to him, it’s almost like he doesn’t realize the scale of this whole thing of professional baseball and I think that actually serves him really well. He’s extremely bright. He’s got ultra-high aptitude on the baseball side. But he is unfazed by the gravity of this whole thing and that so benefits him. He’s comfortable in the way that someone’s comfortable when they don’t realize how big the stakes are, they’re not dragged down by that.”Sights seen around the back fields. @Justinstransky1 @LovichEli @josiahhartshorn #Cubs #ST2026 pic.twitter.com/4QxJDlA7sv
— Rich Biesterfeld (@biest22) March 11, 2026 Outfielder Kane Kepley and catcher Owen Ayers come in for a great deal of discussion by Kanzler in the Tribune piece, too. Each is a guy with some tools that give him a very high floor (speed and defense for Kepley, rapidly advancing skills behind the plate for Ayers), but each also will have his prospecting trajectory set this year largely by how well he produces offensively at High-A/Double-A. We know they can rake at the lowest level, but as the pitching gets more polished, can they take another step forward? If so, those floor skills mean that the total value is quite high. It was a very good time in big league camp for infielder Pedro Ramirez, who’ll likely open the season at Triple-A Iowa and who was added to the 40-man roster in the fall. From Craig Counsell, via Cubs.com: “Pedro has made a very good impression. I’ve had multiple guys on the 26-man roster sing Pedro’s praises, which is always a great sign. And, frankly, they’re not talking about him as a player, necessarily. They’re just talking about him as a worker and how he conducts himself. Pedro should be proud of that.”Pedro Ramirez’ home run today:103.7 mph23° LA373 ftThe Cubs’ No. 9 prospect is now slashing .368/.440/.579 with a 3/1 BB/K ratio this spring. pic.twitter.com/9lVenlK5cT
— Carson Wolf (@TheWrigleyWire) March 8, 2026 Jaxon Wiggins got some time working at big league camp before being part of the first round of cuts, as expected. “The finishing touches can happen really fast,” Craig Counsell said about Wiggins’ situation, per the Sun-Times. “This is how I would describe it. So I think that, but they can also take a while.” In other words, it’s perfectly plausible that the Cubs’ top pitching prospect contributes in the big leagues this year, but it’s also important to remember that the “finishing touches” sometimes take a little longer than you might wish. Because of his intermittent big league experience (and age, 28), I’m not sure anyone would conceptualize Ethan Roberts as a prospect at this point. Still, I wanted to include a note here, because he DOES feel like a still-developing arm after surgery a couple years ago. His velocity is way up this spring, and it’s a base cutter that has been flashing 94/95 mph, plus a sinker in the same velocity band but with opposite movement. And he has that extremely nasty sweeper as a wipeout pitch. This is not a guy to be forgotten long-term, simply because he has minor league options remaining. Outfield prospect Kade Snell has been ripping the ball this spring (after some under-the-hood analysis suggested he was the recipient of some very hard batted ball luck in his pro debut after the draft):Outfielder @SnellKade smoked a HR during a recent intrasquad game! #Cubs #ST2026 pic.twitter.com/8PxNQJtlMO
— Rich Biesterfeld (@biest22) March 11, 2026Hence then, the article about cubs prospect notes hartshorn kepley ayers ramirez wiggins roberts snell was published today ( ) and is available on Bleacher Nation ( Middle East ) The editorial team at PressBee has edited and verified it, and it may have been modified, fully republished, or quoted. You can read and follow the updates of this news or article from its original source.
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