One of the clarion calls I hear often, here and elsewhere, is for the Cubs to get a bona fide leadoff hitter. Most teams that have a quality one aren’t planning to let them go. By free agency? That’s a sour topic, now. How about the draft? Are there any intriguing “leadoff types” in the Cubs draft selection area?
The standard way is to let the player prove or disprove himself. By the time an unknown becomes a positively known quantity, the price to obtain gets prohibitive. If the Cubs can locate a lead-off man at 1.