Massive night for Jonathon Long as he reaches base SIX times for Iowa 5-5, BB, HR, 2 2B 83 games into the season, Long just raised his OPS 34 points in one night.

My seatbelt is fastened.

That diving catch from Dansby got a “sensational” AND an “incredible” from Pat Hughes

Hello. Owen Ayers just homered again.

Not-so-friendly reminder that 1st day of the MLB Draft is airing during 13 MLB games on Saturday and the 2nd day of the MLB Draft overlaps with all 15 MLB games AND the Futures Game.

Cubs 2025 first round pick Ethan Conrad has been promoted to Single-A Myrtle Beach

Michael Carico walks in his first plate appearance of the day for South Bend. He entered the day with a 28.5% walk rate this season in 53 games. He’s walking more than TWICE as much as the average hitter. I’ve never seen something like this.

Pierce Coppola has been promoted to the High-A South Bend Cubs

No new episode in your podcast feeds tomorrow morning for the first time this season! Plenty of evergreen content in recent episodes if you wanna play catch up! We’ll be back next week with a full draft recap!

Owen Ayers is not human

Cubs minor league slash line leaders (min. 200 PA)

Josiah Hartshorn finally has a professional slump to his name. Since June 16 (79 plate appearances): 37 wRC+ .152/.266/.242 29% K, 11% BB His season OPS is still .900

Kane Kepley has been about as good as you could ever want this season

No pod this week! Quick break as we lead into the most chaotic/important few weeks of episodes. Coming up the next month: • Full 20-round draft review • My updated prospect rankings • Trade deadline preview and review Catch up on previous episodes: linktr.ee/cubsondeck

Patient Pete is something else, man

In an interview recently, Cubs breakout prospect Owen Ayers gave a shoutout to the relentless bats in the Double-A outfield. Those 3 guys (Alex Ramirez, Carter Trice, and Andy Garriola) have been very impressive all year long.

Playing the field for the first time in his pro career (LF), Ethan Conrad also just homered for the first time in his pro career. 108.8 MPH exit velo 399 feet

Angel Cepeda turns a stolen base into an out

If you think the Cubs losing 17-1 hurts me then obviously you haven’t paid attention to the Cubs this season

Great night if you’re a pitching prospect that I’m abnormally high on. Nick Dean: 6 IP, 4 H, 0 ER, 1 BB, 7 K Pierce Coppola: 4 IP, 4 H, 2 ER, 2 BB, 6 K

Josiah Hartshorn is now the 29th ranked prospect in the sport, according to @baseballamerica.com A 6th round pick last year, the only players from his draft class ranked higher are: 1st overall pick Eli Willits 3rd overall pick Kade Anderson 6th overall pick Seth Hernandez

Jose Escobar has been hanging around the fringes of Cubs top prospect lists for the past few years. This season, he seems to be making a statement.

Iowa Cubs have used 42 pitchers already this season (+4 position players) 19 different pitchers have started a game 9 different pitchers have recorded a save Catcher Casey Opitz has pitched 6 times, logging 10 innings. One of 25 players to throw double digit IP.

Pete Crow-Armstrong might be the best position player in the National League right now. He just turned 24. Junior Caminero might be the best position player in the American League right now. He turns 23 this weekend.

Newest Cubs addition Michael Hallquist with his 1st hit in the org.

The Chicago Cubs are on pace to score 552 runs in July

Dansby is already extremely dreamy. He shouldn’t be allowed to also hit 3 home runs in a game.

NBC is broadcasting all 15 Sunday MLB games and calling it Star Spangled Sunday & that rocks Not sure what Saturday coverage looks like but for YEARS fans have said MLB needs to own the 4th like the NFL/Thanksgiving, NBA/Xmas & this feels like a good step www.nbc.com/nbc-insider/...

Ethan Conrad will officially make his professional debut in the Arizona Complex League tonight.

Alex Bregman homering? In this economy?

The Cubs have signed Michael Hallquist to a minor league contract. He has spent the 2026 season playing for the Milwaukee Milkmen in Indy Ball. Hallquist is an infielder that spent 2 years at Ball State University and slashed .364/.455/.768 (1.223 OPS) during his time there.

Kaleb Wing has been placed on the Injured List.

Will Sanders’ day appears to be done and it was a beaut 6 IP, 2 H, 1 ER, 0 BB, 5 K

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4 Cubs catching prospects with varying levels of success this season

Owen Ayers could go hitless in his next 28 at-bats and still have an OPS over 1.000

Brody McCullough has been assigned to Myrtle Beach to continue his rehab

Logan Poteet Friday: 5 walks Logan Poteet Saturday: 5 strikeouts Baseball is a wild sport

James Triantos is James Triantosing so hard this year

Cubs prospects with the highest and lowest Three True Outcome% (HR, K, BB) Michael Carico 55.6% Eli Lovich 52.9% Logan Poteet 52.3% Kevin Alcántara 51.5% Edgar Alvarez 48.9% - - Jefferson Rojas 31.5% Alex Ramirez 27.1% Jose Escobar 25.1% Ty Southisene 24.1% James Triantos 20.5%

Jace Beck since operating as a starting pitcher in Knoxville: 5 IP, 5 H, 1 ER, 2 BB, 11 K 5 IP, 2 H, 0 ER, 1 BB, 10 K 4 IP, 2 H, 0 ER, 2 BB, 7 K Tonight’s lone run was the first he’d given up in 6 outings, dating back to May 27th

A couple prospect updates for your evening: • Owen Ayers homered… again. His 20th on the season. • Kaleb Wing, widely considered the org’s 2nd best pitching prospect, left his start after just one inning and 18 pitches in Myrtle Beach.

MLB owners finally had some public support going into CBA negotiations this year and really just threw it all away after their first three proposals. They are efficient, if anything.

Cole Mathis this year in the Cubs organization:

The Cubs have acquired David Peterson in exchange for Cole Mathis, putting an end to a truly bizarre Cubs career for Mathis.

The Cubs have now traded 27.5% of their draft picks from the 2023 and 2024 classes including their first 3 picks from 2024.

Dansby Swanson is on pace for 93 RBI this season lol

Josiah Hartshorn heard that Owen Ayers homered last night and Jefferson Rojas homered (twice) tonight, so he decided to join the party

“The Cubs just didn’t have the starting rotation depth to get through a season.” Brother, they entered the year with Will Sanders as 13th (!) on their starting pitcher depth chart and he might be the most logical choice to start Friday’s game opposite Jacob Misiorowski.