Too much young pitching talent is a good problem to have for the rebuilding Cubs.
“In a perfect world, all of your talent would be homegrown,” vice president of pitching Craig Breslow said last month. “But what we see is, we’re getting a clearer picture of the guys that we have in our system who are going to contribute to major-league wins. And then alongside that, you have the chance to complement and fill in spaces, which is a much easier task than trying to create a roster externally.”
But having so many notable pitching prospects at the upper levels of the farm system – going hand-in-hand with the wealth of players the Cubs have to put on the 40-man roster to protect them from the Rule 5 Draft – will make for some tough roster decisions down the stretch.