<p><a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox" >White Sox</a> left-handed reliever Bryan Hudson was a pretty big deal as a prospect before the 2015 MLB Draft — and not just because of his 6-8 frame.</p><p>Though MLB.com ranked him as the 71st prospect, then-Cubs president Theo Epstein personally scouted Hudson when he pitched for Alton (Illinois) High School. Hudson never met Epstein, but he heard Epstein was at the game.</p><p>The Cubs ended up drafting Hudson in the third round on the recommendation of the late, great area scout Stan Zielinski, who also signed Kyle Schwarber and Jeff Samardzija, among many others, in his 38 years of scouting.</p><p>But after pitching at every level in the Cubs’ system, Hudson was let go in November 2022. To this day, he doesn’t understand what went wrong.