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Justin Steele threw 60 pitches over three innings as the Cubs stretch him out in the hopes of making him a starter. Steele allowed no runs and just one hit. He walked two and struck out five. Scott Effross took over for Steele and got the win because Steele didn’t go five innings. Effross pitched two innings and gave up one run on one hit, a solo home run by Christin Stewart. Effross walked one and struck out three. Dillon Maples allowed two hits but no runs in his one inning of work in a rehab assignment. Maples struck out one and walked no one.

Pelicans SS Ed Howard fell a home run short of the cycle in the victory After the first two innings went scoreless between the two teams, the Pelicans struck first with two runs in the third. Fabian Pertuz, Howard, and Flemin Bautista all singled to load the bases on Gomez. After Ryan Reynolds was retired on a lineout, Gomez was taken out for Tejada. The reliever struggled with location, as he walked Mervis and Wetzel to bring home both runs for the Pelicans to take a 2-0 lead. Down East responded with one run in the next half-inning. Cody Freeman worked a one-out walk, while Cristian Inoa re...

Another rough night down on the farm, but the Cubs’ 2020 1st-round pick went deep for the first time

Big offensive explosions for Iowa and Tennessee as the top two teams win romps. Pelicans were shut out.

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: