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Hot streaks as we move toward the final stretch of the minor league season.

A hat-trick from Abu Kamara gave Norwich City under-23s a winning start to their Premier League 2 season.

We’ve got our mystery man for tomorrow’s Cubs start: Triple-A reliever Robert Stock, per David Ross. Stock, 31, had been filling in as a “starter” at Iowa lately given their own rotation absences, and has gone back-to-back 4.0-inning affairs with good results. That might not translate to four quality innings at the big league level, but when it’s a bullpen game anyway, you’re just happy if you can get a few innings of one-run ball. Note that Alec Mills is starting tonight for the Cubs, so, uh, here’s hoping he also can go a lot of innings. Gonna need that bullpen refreshed and r...

The tabs I keep open in my browser have reached such a critical mass that I have to fire a ton of them off in the form of a Cubs Prospect Notes rather than dig into some of them individually. So enjoy a pile of prospecting bits … ⇒ The Cubs don’t qualify for competitive balance picks, and haven’t had any compensatory picks in a good long while, so their draft bonus pool remains lower than the actual spot where they’re drafting. And the difference between the teams with the top pools and the teams with the smallest pools remains enormous:

2. Cory Abbott Color tmrrw at BN. Honorable Mention: Scott Kobos finished up an amazing May yesterday with two more scoreless innings, making it 11 for the month. Kobos has struck out 19 of the 43 hitters he’s faced, and is just too advanced for Low-A … Shouts to Jacob Wetzel and Flemin Bautista for getting on base two times in both games of the MB doubleheader … Behind Amaya, the 3-4-5 of the Smokies lineup (Grayson Byrd, Tyler Payne, Chris Morel) each went 2-for-5. Morel in particular has found a groove recently, posting an above-average 771 OPS while playing five positions in the las...