I had become quite attached to watching Eloy Jimenez play and was very high on his Cubs future, so I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t a little heartbroken when he was traded in the middle of last summer. I didn’t think the Cubs had anybody else with that type of power potential in the system. Little did I know that they had drafted a monster a month earlier in the fifth round.
As minor league spring training looms, I am looking forward to seeing what Nelson Velasquez can do. He hit 10 home run in just six weeks at Mesa in 2017, including the playoffs, and hit almost .