Getting to Know Cubs Prospect: Chesny Young
Admittedly, I am “jazzed” to write up this piece on Chesny Young. One of my fellow contributors who writes over at CubsChat.com, Robert Killen, would tell you that this is my man crush in the Cubs system; and he’s not wrong.
Just as in yesterday’s “Getting To Know You” piece by Robert Killen, Chesny Young is another prospect who is a peach picked straight out of Georgia. However, unlike a highly-heralded and ripe peach in Dylan Cease, Chesny is like one of those peaches that feel a little squishy when you pick it and you have to hope that it is still good by the time you make your cobbler.
A 14th round pick out of little-known Mercer University in Macon, GA Chesny Young was a little-known name in a draft filled with the hype of Kyle Schwarber and the overslots of: Justin Steele, Carson Sands, and Dylan Cease. Mercer University isn’t exactly a MLB- producing factory, either. You can find a list of the players that have been drafted out of Mercer University here. It’s not exactly an awe-inspiring list. However, you do have Billy Burns recently who has carved out quite the niche thus far in Oakland.
Chesny Young wasn’t an over-slot pick, he wasn’t highly-heralded, he came from a so-so baseball school(if that), and wasn’t even ranked in the top-20 prospects for the CUBS according to most baseball publishing’s leading up to the season.
So why am I highlighting CHESNY YOUNG?!?!?!
