In the real world, I teach US History, Geography, and World History and I write about prospects in my spare time. I am also into photography and you will see those pics from time to time on this site. I live about 20 minutes SW of Rockford with my wife Anne and our four pups.
Recent Articles from Todd Johnson
Yonathan Perlaza - Pic by Iowa Cubs Simply put, tonight was not a good night to be a fan of the Cubs system. For starters, Myrtle Beach's game was suspended in the top of the fourth and will be finished tomorrow. Both South Bend and Tennessee lost while Iowa split a...
Koen Moreno - Picture by Stephanie Lynn The 2020 MLB Draft has to be one of the wackiest times in draft history. For one, every team only selected five players. Then, you could sign free agents, but only for a max bonus of $20,000. The Cubs drafted Ed Howard,...
Connor Noland - Picture by Todd Johnson The more I watch baseball year after year, the more I am not surprised to see things I have not seen before. It began this afternoon in Des Moines where the Cubs and Clippers. It was a seesaw affair all day long. After 8 it was...
Porter Hodge - Pic by Tennessee Smokies This sort of happened quickly. May flew by in the blink of an eye and now we’re sitting here with our second monthly All-Star team of the 2023 season. This team is a little bit different mainly because we have about a third less...
At the time I wrote this affiliate update, the Tennessee Smokies had a record of 26 and 20 and had a 1.5 game lead it in their division in the Southern League over Chattanooga. They are playing the Lookouts this week and can put some distance between themselves and...
Cade Horton - Picture by Todd Johnson Tonight belonged to two pitchers - Cade Horton of South Bend and Michael Arias of Myrtle Beach. Both had amazing nights on the mound. Starting Pitchers of the Day For Cade Horton, he went four innings and gave up an unearned run....
BJ Murray - Picture by the Tennessee Smokies Let’s be honest, when the Cubs took BJ Murray in the 15th round of the 2021 MLB draft, I didn’t know much about him. I could access his stat line and see that he hit some dingers in college and he came on strong near the...
Kohl Franklin - Picture by Tennessee Smokies It has been a strange two days, but I will get you caught up on the last two night’s of action. Tennessee played on Monday, but was off today, and they were the only Cubs affiliate to play Monday. The Smokies put on a...
One of these Tuesdays is going to be a very busy day. Normally, the Cubs tend to make a lot of transactions and moves around the first of the month. With that falling on Thursday this week, we could see a few big moves happen today. Or, it might just be a couple...
Here are some storylines to keep a closer eye on during the month of June. 1. Richard Gallardo - At times, he looks good. At other times, he is very hittable and his pitches look flat like last week in Beloit. What I want to see for him is to pitch well against good...
