How Cubs prospect Owen Caissie can impact 2026 roster | Cubs 360 | Marquee Sports Network

All right, ladies and gentlemen, we’re keeping our eye towards the future and the youth movement for these Chicago Cubs. And our player development analyst, Lance Brazowski, he’s joined us to join in on that conversation. And today, we’re feasting our attention on the Cinnamon Savage. That’s the one and only Owen Casey. The guy can play outfield, he can go out there, and he can pick it in the field and he can also swing the stick. What’s the general overview on this cat? Yeah, so you got to think back to the Udarish trade is actually how the Cubs acquired at the time. There’s a lot of pieces in that. He has now become the central piece of it that if you look back kind of retrospectively, it seems like this may push in the Cubs favor if you could get Owen Casey to be productive. He was drafted by the Padres’s in 2020 in the second round out of uh Catholic High School in uh Burlington, Ontario. So, he’s a good old Canadian boy. He’s got cinnamon hair and he has insane bat speed. So, he’s a really fun piece for the Cubs in 2026. Okay. As you make mention of that bat speed, is there one tool in particular that really jumps off the page for Big Red? Yeah, it’s it’s the bat speed. I alluded to it, but this is one of the central things that if you’re looking at a player, I I think a lot of players from the evaluation side, you know, you’re scouting a player, you’re looking at him in the draft. How hard does he swing the bat? What is the potential for damage is really what teams try to key in on Casey had one of the highest bat speeds in all the baseball. He’s inside like the top 20th percentile in baseball. You can see it’s three ticks above the average. But it’s not just how hard he hits the ball, it’s also that he can lift it. This is something you run into certain guys. generally you’re going to run into higher exit velocities on the ground, but if you can lift those, that’s actually how you get the damage. You run slugs north of 500. And the thing I want to point out, this is a subtle negative, but I think it it does a good job contextualizing who he is as a hitter. His zone miss is slightly above average, but the key thing I want to point out is this balance between actualizing the bat speed, getting slug, but being willing to accept some miss in the zone, knowing that the return there is positive for you. If you look at the five of the top seven or eight hitters in baseball last year, they all had above average strikeout rates. So, they’re willing to sacrifice a little bit of swing and miss as long as they’re able to pay it off with the power and own Casey does that really, really well. And do you think some of that endzone miss is that attributed to him just being a young player who wants to do damage every time he’s in the box? I think so. That’s another thing. Again, he’s only 23, so you could project this over time. Maybe it comes down. At the moment, it’s still a really good payoff, but you can envision a scenario where that zone miss comes down below the average and then all of a sudden you’re looking at a guy who hits the ball really hard and everything. He he gets slug. He doesn’t miss in zone. The striker rate comes down and all of a sudden he’s an all-star. I want to look at this in two veins here. If you look at 2026, he’s projecting right now to be the right field. You know, he’s the strong side of the platoon. We’ll see if the Cubs add a righty bat to supplement him if they don’t want Owen Casey facing left-handed pitching. On the left side here, I’m going 240, 320, 410 with 20 homers. This is a really good season. Again, he’s one of the top prospects in the or you got to imagine again the trajectory here over time is something that will grow for him. When you look forward and push him say four or five years down the road, let’s say his peak age is about age 28 or 29. Let’s go to 2030 now. You’re looking at 250. So, I’m not saying the batting average is ever going to be amazing, but give me 30 extra points on base and then if you could take that slug up right around 500, you could get to like a 30 homer season. This guy becomes potentially a perennial all-star in right field. This is the fun power bat that could replace a guy like Kyle Tucker if he doesn’t work out with the Cubs. One word to answer, yes or no. Opening day starter 2026. I think so. Especially if there’s a righty on the yes or no. It’s all about that projectility and we know that the potential it’s big. And this guy, he has tons of it. Lance, good stuff. Yeah, absolutely. Heat. Heat. [Music]

Marquee Sports Network’s Cole Wright and Lance Brozdowski take a closer look at Chicago Cubs prospect Owen Caissie’s projections ahead of the 2026 season and the impact he could have in the major league lineup on “Cubs 360.”

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