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    BA's Cubs Top 10 will be out next week, on 12/14.
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    AAA - Iowa AA - Tennessee High-A - South Bend A - Myrtle Beach Eugene becomes the Giants’s high-A team. https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/mlb-invites-119-teams-to-join-minor-leagues-in-2021/ Kane County is amongst the 11 teams that lost their affiliation:
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    Fire Pace (we already knew most of this stuff): https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/bears/ct-chicago-bears-deshaun-watson-mitch-trubisky-20201209-ddczbz4l5fhb3iwe34o6q3xpqy-story.html?outputType=amp&__twitter_impression=true
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    https://twitter.com/sox_takes/status/1336369251624620035?s=21
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    Looking at Twitter reaction and clearly I am the low guy on Dunning. Way too much infatuation with team control.
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    Right now, I'm feeling: Rick Smith- President of Football Operations (former Texans GM before O'Brien) Ed Dodds (Colts asst GM) or Joe Hortiz (Ravens asst GM)- GM Brandon Staley - HC (Rams DC, former Bears asst under Fangio) Shane Waldron- OC (Rams QB coach, passing game coordinator) Jay Rodgers- DC (Current Bears DL coach, former asst under Fangio) Dodds seemingly was a package deal with Robert Saleh last year when Cleveland was interested, but Cleveland went with another HC. So, he may be of a lot of interest to Detroit. If that's still the case, give me Hortiz. But yes, I went with a defensive head coach. He has Bears ties and his name is Staley! But the ideal pairing is a Fangio disciple led defense with an offensive coach from the Shanahan tree. Best of both worlds. Waldron could bring in a veteran consultant since all these guys are young. But Rodgers and Staley overlapped under Fangio, and allows the Bears to keep and promote maybe their only good position coach. Oh, I like what I've seen of Staley.
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    And Michael Rucker was the only name listed in BA's lengthy Rule 5 preview: https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/2020-mlb-rule-5-draft-preview-version-20/
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    Trask goes to Florida so that's probably his second car.
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    Raw is absolutely right. You can and should trade up for a game-changing QB, just have to get the pick right. No one is saying Kansas City (10th overall for 27 overall, a 3rd rounder and a 1st rounder the next year) or Houston (12 for 27 and a first rounder the next year) traded too much for Mahomes and Watson. Obviously they should avoid trading a first rounder but they shouldn't have to at their current trajectory. They can and should backfill draft picks in other ways, yes (trade veterans, compensation picks, trade downs in non-QB scenarios). Also, if you don't have conviction on the QBs available, don't force one and work on filling the many other holes on the team. The Bears will probably get another chance at the top QBs in 2022. Good post except the word conviction is hereby banned post-Pace era. That is a dirty word now lol. Hah. Honestly, I forgot Pace used it. I was channeling my inner-Jim Deshaies.
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    THE TEAM LACKS DEPTH, AND THEY LACK DEPTH BECAUSE THEY'VE TRADED AWAY PICKS. THEY CANT AFFORD TO KEEP DOING THAT sry capslock eta: look at it this way, they don't have a #2 WR, no #2 RB, no #1 TE (there's hope for Kmet), and all of their OLine backups are 7th rd or UFA's. You know what helps a team fill out those backups at reasonable prices? draft picks. Sure, this off season could be different with the CAP being low, but you're just likely to get older players who will command more salary anyway Raw is absolutely right. You can and should trade up for a game-changing QB, just have to get the pick right. No one is saying Kansas City (10th overall for 27 overall, a 3rd rounder and a 1st rounder the next year) or Houston (12 for 25 and a first rounder the next year) traded too much for Mahomes and Watson. Obviously they should avoid trading a first rounder but they shouldn't have to at their current trajectory. They can and should backfill draft picks in other ways, yes (trade veterans, compensation picks, trade downs in non-QB scenarios). Also, if you don't have conviction on the QBs available, don't force one and work on filling the many other holes on the team. The Bears will probably get another chance at the top QBs in 2022.
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    Brendon Little made Jonathan Mayo’s 10 to watch in this week’s Rule 5 Draft:
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    Okay, now even I believe the Bears will clean house. Hopefully to include Philips.
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    Lmaooooo
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    The PG Staff had a mock draft: https://www.perfectgame.org/Articles/View.aspx?article=18907&src=hmrep Jud Fabian went 1.1 over Kumar Rocker.
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    Can't believe McCarthy quit on the Cowboys once Dak got hurt.
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    Not a top prospect list but it’s somehing from the national media.
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    This list now includes pro IFA prospects, including ones who won’t be posted or free agents for a few years. Eric Longenhagen continues to be the low man with Christians Hernandez, compared to BA and MLB. He has him ranked 5th with this write-up: Moises Ballesteros didn’t rank in Longenhagen’s top 40 pro and amateur prospects. Here is some of the fallout from not increasing bonuses and not allowing trades: The Cubs are probably close to their cap already with Hernandez and Ballesteros so they probably can’t get sneak in and add additional talent next month. The 2021 IFAs Longenhagen doesn’t have linked to a team right now are: C Jesús Galiz, SS Yeferson Tineo, OF/P Oscar Colas and OF Yoeliqui Cespedes. All could be pushed to 2022 if they can’t find a team soon.
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    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.mlb.com/amp/news/oscar-luis-colas-to-petition-for-mlb-free-agency.html
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