Matt Shaw & Kevin Alcántara

It isn’t often when I get live looks at guys at the end of one season and the beginning of the next season. However, with several Cubs prospects coming to town for an early season series including Cade Horton (RHP, CHC), who I wrote up last week, I was able to catch up with 5 of the top Cubs prospects I saw last season. Today, we’ll concentrate on the two biggest fantasy prospects not named Horton. Let’s look at Matt Shaw (IF, CHC) and Kevin Alcántara (OF, CHC) 

Matt Shaw (IF, CHC) – Shaw is the biggest name of the Cubs Double-A prospects. He made it to the upper minors in his first professional season, after the Cubs took him in the 1st round out of the University of Maryland. Drafted as a SS, Shaw has exclusively appeared as...

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