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
Brailyn Marquez - Picture by Todd Johnson Carlos Archila@carchila1 : Any predictions on who makes their MLB debut next year? Davis-June? Morel/Jensen/Killian-August? Well, I think you did half my job for me. In all honesty, though, most of the prospects you mentioned...
We are getting closer and closer and closer to a full minor league season. Over the past few weeks, a few camps have been taking place. This week, a lot of prospects showed up in Mesa and it was good to see Riley Thompson and Kohl Franklin working out with the regular...
Normally, I start piecing together The Weekly post for Sunday on Wednesdays. I actually don’t start writing it, though, until Friday morning on my walk. Anyway, by the middle of Friday afternoon, I just had way too much information for one post as there was a lot of...
Alexander Canario - Pic by Todd Johnson In a little over a year, the Cubs corps of outfield prospects has gone from pretty thin to extremely stacked with several trades made in that time span. There are 12 top 30 Cubs prospects on MLB Pipeline play in the grass for...
Picture of Cristian Hernandez by Rich Biesterfeld The biggest question for fanbases as publications drop their respective Top 100s is “how many [prospects] will my team have?”. Baseball America has answered that question for Cubs fans with a not surprising, but...
Miguel Fabrizio - Picture via MiLB The history of Cubs prospects is littered with players that have done well in rookie league and petered out once they got to class A. It’s not uncommon to see a guy do well at one level and then struggle at the next. However, It’s...
Carlos Archila@carchila1: How does the hitting and pitching infrastructure work through the different levels? How are they making adjustments and how is the need to make adjustments communicated? Daily updates? Weekly updates? I’m just curious on how a player develops...
This week was another busy week for me personally as academic team season kicked off with a tournament over in Pecatonica. In baseball, negotiations also started to take place between MLB and the Players' Association, but don’t get too excited for the lock out to end...
From Left to Right - Carlos Altuve, Jefferson Rojas, Adan Sanchez, Josefrailin Alcantara, and Alexis Hernandez Good morning! It is international free agent signing day and I am here for all the action. In fact, it will probably be over within minutes after it begins....
Jordan Wicks - Photo by Todd Johnson As this off-season has gone on, I have wavered several times about where to rank the Cubs’ cadre of left-handed starting pitchers in comparison to the other positions. The Cubs arguably have three left-handed starters in their top...