As Jon Heyman reported earlier this week, the MLB Draft is scheduled to be held virtually on its original date of June 10. We don’t know yet whether it’ll be cut to 10 rounds or even as few as five, but it’ll be at least 30 rounds shorter than usual. That will certainly change teams’ strategies, since there’s little room for error, but the Cubs were already going to be approaching this draft with a fresh perspective.
In the past under Jason McLeod, the Cubs’ top picks were almost exclusively college players who were more advanced, more projectable, and could presumably get to the majors much quicker than high school players.