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Dont like the frame on Rosen and do not think he has Trubisky's arm talent. I really do not think much of Jared Goff, I dont think the Rams do either. He was never the same after he got pasted by the beloved on SNF. Murray can be a stud. I think he has a much higher likelihood of being a stud than Rosen. If I'm Arizona I know I'm probably not getting the pick of the little again next year so now's the time to make your decision. Ultimately Bosa is still the right pick but I get the logic behind taking Murray and spinning off Rosen. Of course nobody is going to want Rosen.

Aaaand Collins is leaving New York. Bears have to be in on the bidding for him, get Eddie on the phone.

This is out-of-control homerism. I'd rather have any one of Acuna OR Albies for Moncada and Kopech combined at this stage.

The Sox will never do this.

If you're going to make a deal the magnitude of Trading Away Chris Sale on a Team Friendly Contract you should do a whole lot more scouting than evaluating each offers respective player's position on that iteration of the Baseball American Top 100. There were signs even then that Acuna/Albies was a better duo to acquire than Moncada/Kopech.

We aren't going to see one of the others pitch again for another calendar year and the third guy looks decent-but-not-special. Someone should do a wellness check on Victor Diaz by the way. It was a bad trade. I know people dont like hearing that but it was awful. Hindsight is always 20/20 but they would've been so much better off pursuing a deal with the Braves.

Its particularly strong top three in this years draft.

So the Sox traded Chris Sale, a generational talent, for a league average switch hitter (who cant really switch hit)

I really wonder what creates this almost religious devotion to Yoan Moncada. Its been 900 MLB PA's and he still cant hit the ball, I dont even know what to tell you guys. People keep insisting to me that its too early to make any determinations, going so far as to compare Mike Trout's first 150 or so MLB PA's to a full season and a half of Moncada being an offensive black hole. My best theory is that the only way to endure the fact that a possible first ballot HOFer on a ludicrously cheap contract was traded away for four players, none of the other three being particularly impressive, and the only way to keep your head up through it is to just pretend Moncada has looked like this superstar in the making when the truth is he is closer to a infield version of Byron Buxton.

I called this months ago I just wish I put it in writing somewhere. Look at how successful top 10 QB's have been these last three drafts. Only Rosen has looked like a true bust. Front offices are starting to believe that the code has been cracked and that if every year's best crop of QB's are destined for some amount of NFL success. Since nothing makes the NFL more easy-mode than a capable QB on a rookie contract the decision to make Murray seems natural. Of course I think Darnold, Goff, Watson and Wentz are all not going to make it long-term (to be fair the issues with Wentz and Watson are health and not ability related) and that even this historic run of strong QB drafting is going to suffer a little bit more attrition that cuts it back down to size.

The Bulls are a top 3 pick from being pretty good. Insert any one of Williamson, Morant or Barrett onto this Bulls team and they'll transform. If you squint you can see a path to some real success. And hey at least they aren't trying to blow smoke up our ass even indicating they have prayer at Durant or Irivng or whoever. I find the Bulls vision at least realistic

I will very surprised if Eloy is anything less than extraordinary. Like MVP caliber if it weren't for the GOAT hogging the award every year. Rutherford is an all star caliber player to me. He's got it all once the power develops. Robert can be the best of the whole bunch, even better than Eloy, but he can't stay healthy and even if he does I have zero faith the Sox can develop him. He would basically have to overcome the Sox ineptitude through sheer talent. Hopefully Kopech recovers. They need him to be a stud, which everyone sees the obvious potential for. Madrigal should be a good 2b. The rest gives me almost no cause for hope unless someone like Adolfo has a few things go right. I have no hope for Moncada, Giolito or Lopez.

I expect the Bears to trade back up into the late-second or early-third round. Some combination of moving Howard plus packaging another pick. So think of Howard + 5.163 for something in the 2.50 to 3.75 range. They need someone a little more dynamic to line up outside and create matchup problems. I love Miller and Cohen's ability to exploit defenses with their route running and hands but they simply do not create offense the way a bonafide matchup nightmare at Y or Z does. As for free agency I feel even more strongly that the Bears should try and get one very quality piece instead of a quantity of average pieces. They dont have the funds to jump in on Jarrett or Lawrence type players who are truly marquee but they can make it work to bring in Za'darius Smith, Landon Collins or Kwon Alexander. Cap hell is coming no matter what they do so may as well maximize the hell out of this two-year window.

I agree that a lot of people expect the Bears to have some perfect roster that is 53 men deep top-to-bottom, which in a salary cap league is almost impossible. I will say Burton did not impress me at all this year. Expected way more from him. Shaheen does what he does in the red zone and he's effective in that role but he's simply not an everydown TE. I would say TE is their weakest position, I just dont think they have much there.

Dion Sims is gone and suddenly the Bears cap situation is a little more flexible.

Bears got the second best QB in a loaded QB draft. I am quite happy with how it turned out, the 49ers would desperately like to have Trubisky rather than Garappollo.

I'd trade places with both those franchises without even hesitation or second thought.

If the rebuild were going well the free agent failures would've been taken more in stride. But we have had to watch Acuna and Soto go wild while Tatis Jr. has ascended to being the top prospect in baseball. The frustration you're seeing is a culmination of a lot of things.

That's great, now tell me about Wendell Carter Jr.

It's been more than two years now since Moncada looked like the next "Robinson Cano" or whatever. He wasn't great in Charlotte, he wasn't great in 2017, he got worse last season. It's not good. I wish it were good but it's not. Same with Lopez and Giolito, both of them look actually even worse. I wish like crazy just one of these prospects of theirs would look even decent but so far it's been universally terrible. Compare that to the other rebuilds around baseball...it's actually very alarming. Kopech did look the part but, well, he's gone now. That's the risk they took accepting a deal that hinged largely on a pitcher of his type making it.

Oh, you're one of those.

You make that deal if you are certain you can make Fournette into the player everyone thought he'd be coming out of LSU. If you can do that it's a great trade. Like I said... Howard is probably the better overall back but these are the types of moves the Bears should at least be investigating.

How is it crazy to say a guy who can't hit the baseball may not be a good major leaguer while others breathlessly compare him to the likes of Mike Trout and Robinson Cano and nobody bats an eye. I think you may be coping, my friend.

They are simply not going to spend in free agency. That has been proven beyond any shadow of a doubt with the way they wound up being total non factors in an offseason they hyped to the moon.

The Red Sox did hesitate to add other players though, and Hahn just kind of let them get away with that. That deal was at least one player short