The question marks that surrounded the strangest draft in Major League Baseball history were replaced by exclamation points as new VP of scouting Dan Kantrovitz pumped tons of excitement into the Cubs system over the past two days. After selecting Ed Howard with the No. 16 overall pick Wednesday night, the Cubs followed up in rounds 2-5 by targeting some of the loudest tools the draft had to offer.
We’ll have more in-depth analysis of each of the four draftees in a bit, but here’s the tl;dr version of Thursday’s action if you’re into that sort of thing.