The Chicago Cubs have had a pattern of late. With each of their last five first-round draft picks, they've selected a player from a power conference college. In that span, Chicago has selected two players from the Big 12 Conference, one player from the Big ...

A former Chicago Cubs pitcher and Major League Baseball first-round draft pick who ended his career with the Cubs in 1996, has died, according to multiple reports. Mike Campbell was a Washington State native who was selected seventh overall in the 1985 MLB ...

How would you handle the pressure that would come with being the hometown kid? The Cubs posed that question to Ed Howard IV during a pre-draft interview. "I was looking forward to it," Howard remembers saying. "I wanted to be a hometown kid. I'm excited it ...

Stephen Strasburg won it. So did Kris Bryant and Adley Rutschman. More recently, guys like Dylan Crews and Charlie Condon took home the Golden Spikes Award before becoming top-of-the-first-round Draft picks.