Triantos, who turned 19 in January, reclassified to be draft eligible a year earlier, and it paid off when the Cubs selected him in the second round in 2021 out of James Madison High School in Vienna, Va., in suburban Washington, D.C. He received an over-slot $2.1 million signing bonus to forgo his college commitment to the University of North Carolina.
Chicago Cubs prospect James Triantos forms an unexpected connection with ex-Cubs slugger Kyle Schwarber: ‘Not many people would do that’
