The Futures Game took place Sunday afternoon, which is also Draft Day, and also featured a full slate of MLB games, so you can be forgiven if you didn’t watch. It was a seven-inning affair that took nearly three hours, featuring a lot of homers, some big velocity, and more mid-inning pitching changes than you’d get if Tony LaRussa coached both teams in a Tuesday night college game.
Brennen Davis was the standout, with two homers, both bombs, one off a 95 mph fastball right down the pipe, the other off a hanging curveball from a right-handed reliever. He also punched out on 98 middle-up in an earlier at-bat. Davis was a projection pick when the Cubs first took him in 2018, and now he’s starting to show more of the power they foresaw, already posting a .
