Arizona Phil 09/16/2023 - 09:13 pm (view)
KKvG: Juan Bello was one of about five or six pitchers at the Cubs Dominican Academy in 2022 who were considered to be the Cubs best DSL pitching prospects. The others were Kevin Valdez, Freilyn Silverio, Eligio Paredes, and Carlos Garcia (who was on the Restricted List in 2022)
K. Valdez (the Cubs #1 DSL prospect in 2022) got moved up to the ACL Cubs during the 2022 season, and Bello, Silverio, Paredes, and C. Garcia were invited to post-2022 AZ Instructs
All of them were invited to Minor League Camp this past March, but Bello went down with an injury just before the start of Extended Spring Training and was out of action April through July.