In a little over 48 hours, Baseball Prospectus (BP) will close out the prospect list season with their roster of the Cubs’ top prospects. It’s been a long and tedious process as many publications, authors, and blogs have compiled these lists over the last two plus months. Thursday’s release means that regular baseball is very, very close.
The reason it’s taken so long for BP to get around to this particular list is that the Cubs were given the distinction of having the number one farm system in baseball last year. As a result, the Cubs are the last team to be profiled as BP worked through the systems in reverse order.