With Alex Bregman set to join Dansby Swanson on the left side of the Cubs infield, after reportedly agreeing to a five-year, $175 million free agent contract last week, it sets them up to become the fifth pair of teammates taken first and second in the same Draft.

Cubs have a crazy Alex Bregman-Dansby Swanson connection with new free agent signing originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. It's been more than a decade since Dansby Swanson and Alex Bregman were side-by-side quite like this.

As the Cubs introduce Bregman as third baseman, they'll reintroduce themselves as a big-market franchise with serious ambitions to win.