Cubs On Deck

Greg Huss, Greg Zumach, and Bryan Smith hand out 20 total awards on the 2nd edition of the Cubs On Deck Award Show. They span from standard ones like Hitter of the Year to weird ones like the I-80 Road Warrior Award followed by superlatives like Most Power and Best Breaking Ball.

A huge thanks to everyone for tuning in each week this season. Your support has been absolutely incredible and we appreciate each and every one of you!

Hosts Greg Huss and Alex Cohen break down a whole host of prospects that currently call Iowa home: Owen Caissie, Kevin Alcantara, Matt Shaw, James Triantos, Moises Ballesteros, Ed Howard, Brandon Birdsell, Connor Noland, and Michael Arias.

Topics on this week's episode with Greg Huss and Greg Zumach:

• Storylines from the Myrtle Beach Pelicans season
• Storylines from the South Bend Cubs season
• Tracking Baseball America's Top 100 list and where Cubs prospects have fallen on it over the course of the season (spoiler: it doesn't look as good now compared to the middle of summer)
• State of the System

Cubs On Deck's apparel today was provided by Travis Mathew

Topics on today's episode with Greg Huss and Bryan Smith:

• Cam Smith's hot performance to start off his pro career and if we see him finish the season in Tennessee
• James Triantos crazy stolen base numbers and what it means for his long-term projection
• Predictions for the Arizona Fall League including Moises Ballesteros, Ben Cowles, Brody McCullough, and Luis Rujano
• How the hot Smokies got into the playoffs

Greg Zumach flies solo for this episode as he answers plenty of your questions from draft classes through guys knocking on the door to Chicago!

Topics on this week's episode with Greg Huss and Bryan Smith:

- Cade Horton and Ben Brown's extended absences due to injury and what it means for their projection in future seasons
- Why the Cubs system was ranked outside the top 10 by both ESPN and Baseball America
- Estimating when Owen Caissie, Moises Ballesteros, Matt Shaw, James Triantos, and Kevin Alcantara will make their MLB debuts
- A deep dive into the success of Brandon Birdsell

Greg Huss is joined by Myrtle Beach broadcaster Sam Weiderhaft in this episode as the guys talk...

• The promotions of Matt Shaw, James Triantos, and Kevin Alcantara to Triple-A Iowa
• What it would mean for Cam Smith to play in Myrtle Beach
• The Pelicans hot streak
• Individual analysis on Eriandys Ramon, Cristian Hernandez, Alfonsin Rosario, Carter Trice, Leonel Espinoza, Yenrri Rojas, Christian Olivo, Nico Zeglin, Kenten Egbert, Miguel Pabon, and Nazier Mule

In this week's episode, Greg Huss and Bryan Smith take a look at each of the three trades the Cubs made at the trade deadline and give their in-depth thoughts on the prospects added (Jack Neely, Ben Cowles) and lost (Hunter Bigge, Ty Johnson, Yohendrick Pinango, Josh Rivera). Stick around for the end when Greg interviews one of the true fan-favorite prospsects in the system in Frankie Scalzo Jr.

Greg Huss just released his new Cubs prospect rankings at North Side Bound and he’sanswering your questions about why he ranked certain players where he did! He gives some tidbits about all 30 prospects on his list.

Full rankings and write-ups: https://northsidebound.com/2024/07/08/greg-huss-updates-his-top-30-prospects-with-plenty-of-new-guys-in-the-mix/

You get three hosts for this episode with Greg Huss, Greg Zumach, and Bryan Smith. The crew breaks down each of the 20 Cubs draft picks from this week!

1. Cam Smith
2. Cole Mathis
3. Ronny Cruz
4. Ty Southisene
5. Ariel Armas
6. Ryan Gallagher
7. Ivan Brethowr
8. Edgar Alvarez
9. Brooks Caple
10. Matt Halbach
11. Eli Lovich
12. Daniel Avitia
13. Evan Aschenbeck
14. Cameron Sisneros
15. Hayden Frank
16. Christian Gordon
17. Ben Johnson
18. Thomas Hangus
19. Owen Ayers
20. Brayden Risedorph