Jorge Soler, the 20-year-old Cuban outfielder that the Cubs gave a nine-year, $30 million contract in June, will make his minor league debut on Thursday for the AZL Cubs (Rookie League), according to ESPN Chicago Cubs beat writer Doug Padilla:
Soler is 6'3", 205 with tremendous power potential, and projects as your prototypical right fielder. On Monday, Baseball America's Jim Callis updated the publication's top 50 midseason prospects list by inserting recent international free agent signings and draft signings, and Soler came in at No. 44.
Soler is 6'3", 205 with tremendous power potential, and projects as your prototypical right fielder. On Monday, Baseball America's Jim Callis updated the publication's top 50 midseason prospects list by inserting recent international free agent signings and draft signings, and Soler came in at No. 44.
Also added to that list (at No. 38) was the Cubs' 1st round pick (No. 6 overall selection) in the 2012 draft, 18-year-old outfielder Albert Almora, and you can see in Padilla's tweet that the Cubs are not ready to throw the just-out-of-high school player into minor league games yet.
Oh, and back to Soler- the AZL Cubs may have one of the most powerful middle of the orders in all of the minor leagues with Soler and Dan Vogelbach (.360/.423/.779 with 7 HR and 30 RBI in 20 games) in it. Quite an entertaining rookie ball roster in Mesa.
