​The 2026 MLB Draft is now over and if they all sign, there will be 21 new members of the Cubs family. Scouting director Dan Kantrovitz said before the draft that the Cubs would work on the weakness on the pitching side of the Cubs farm system and boy, did they ever. With 21 picks over the 20-round draft, the Cubs took 16 pitchers, one outfielder, one shortstop, one shortstop, and two first basemen, although one of the first basemen catches some. Nineteen of the 21 picks were college players.Here, once again, are all 21 Cubs draft picks.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementRound 1 (23): Cade Townsend RHP MississippiRound 2 (62): Caden Sorrell OF Texas A&MRound 2 Comp (75): Myles Bailey 1B Florida StateRound 3 (98): Carson Jasa RHP NebraskaRound 4 (126): Dylan Marioneaux RHP Northwestern State (LA)Round 5 (159): Dylan Blomker RHP La Cueva HS (NM)Round 6 (188): Isaac Morton RHP MinnesotaRound 7 (217): Cole Tryba LHP UC Santa BarbaraRound 8: Lance Williams RHP MarylandRound 9: Chase Meyer RHP West VirginiaRound 10: Luke Alwood RHP Seattle UniversityRound 11: Ariston Veasey RHP ClemsonRound 12: Brandon Arvidson LHP TennesseeRound 13: Emanuel Hernandez C Carlos Beltran Academy (PR)Round 14: Corey Nunez SS UC Santa BarbaraRound 15: Griffin Naess RHP Caly Poly SLORound 16: Ashton Pocol RHP Florida Gulf CoastRound 17: Ryan Marton RHP UNLVRound 18: Luke McGrath RHP James MadisonRound 19: Luke Guth RHP VanderbiltRound 20: Brennan Hudson 1B GeorgiaSo the Cubs stuck to their long-standing preferences for college players over high school players by drafting only two high schoolers—Blomker in the sixth round and Hernandez in the 13th. That’s a trend that is taking hold in all of baseball as around 77 percent of the players drafted came from a four-year college. Another two percent came from the junior college ranks, so only around 1 out of 5 picks were high school players.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementOtherwise, two things stand out. Obviously the Cubs took a lot of pitchers. Kantrovitz hinted that they would and they did. But what is striking is what kinds of pitchers they took. While the Cubs did not take many soft-tossers, even the hardest throwers sit more 95-96 miles per hour on their four-seam fastball. Some have touched the upper-90s and perhaps the Cubs think they can put a few ticks of velocity on them in the pitch lab. They’ve had some successes doing that in recent years.But the one thing that unites almost all these pitchers is a high spin rate. In his video press conference with the Cubs media, first-round pick Cade Townsend said:“Spin is really my super power. That’s what I tell everyone. I just have a weird, innate ability to spin the ball and make the ball move left or right.” Kantrovitz said he was going to work with Cubs pitching coordinator Tyler Zombro to identify pitchers that he could work with. Apparently Zombro wants pitchers who can spin the ball.Beyond Townsend, 3rd round pick Carson Jasa,