What did the Chicago Cubs get from their picks in rounds 11-20 in the 2023 MLB Draft?

14th Round Pick- Grayson Moore P (Vanderbilt University)

I’ve been very vocal about drafting college hitters because they are statistically most likely to work out. One of the least likely demographics to be successful even getting to the major league level is a college pitcher that has already been converted to a reliever. That being said, I have a soft spot for them and therefore I love this pick. 

Moore has been a reliever for Vanderbilt pretty much exclusively his entire time there. In the three seasons there he had a 4.58 ERA with 81 strikeouts across 59 innings. This season he had a 3.08 ERA with 36 strikeouts over 26 innings and last year on the Cape he carried a 0.47 ERA across 19.1 innings with 25 strikeouts.

The Cubs need relief pitching. Relievers are the most finicky position in, potentially, all of sports and you can never have enough of them. The Cubs have shown this season they don’t intend to buy relief pitching in the free-agent market so drafting guys that have the makeup for that role out of great colleges like Vanderbilt in the late rounds gets me excited.