Two rankings of the MLB farm systems were released today and they came to different conclusions as to the overall state of the Cubs farm system.
Baseball America released their rankings of all 30 farm systems and ranked the Cubs as the 17th-best (Baseball America sub. req.), putting the Cubs firmly among the major league average. This is an improvement over their ranking of 22nd in 2020 and 29th in 2019.
In contrast, Keith Law of The Athletic also released his ranking of farm systems and he put the Cubs as the 26th-best, (The Athletic sub.