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  1. Bertz
    What rookie? The Bears dont draft QBs with 1 notable exception. I doubt they use a draft pick on a 3rd round QB or something. They should but they wont I think this is a sign they're going to trade up into the front half of the 1st for a guy. Dalton is going to be to like Mac Jones what Glennon was to Trubisky. Or what Ryan Fitzpatrick has been to like a half dozen guys.
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    Oh, you sweet naive child
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    lol I feel like everything since the double doink has turned Mays from playfully cynical about the Bears to basically Kyle, and it's pretty great to watch.
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    All of these QB rumors surrounding the Bears is much ado about nothing, isn't it? Going to end up with horsefeathering Nick Foles as the Bears QB aren't we? For any bad thing you can say about Pace, he's not afraid to make moves. If anything his problem is the opposite, being afraid to *not* make moves.
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    Are we rehashing last year? Yea Pace was aggressive and didn't want to wait out the QB market, like he should have. He traded for Foles because the Bengals/Panthers asking prices were too high for Dalton/Newton. But like that's all sunk cost and way too many fans apparently have a view that Foles is just a bed Pace has to lie in and not spend any other money on a QB unless it's Wilson? It's not my fault it's relevant again. Pace made a choice last year that looked dumb at the time and looks even worse in hindsight. My hope was that for scouting/scheme/personnel reasons that would go over my head, Dalton wasn't a fit. But if they bring him in now that's clearly not the case. Dalton works on this roster. He's a quality backup either for a big acquisition or as a caddy for a draft pick. And I assume Dalton + Foles' dead money will be less than Foles salary (and if not, horsefeathering christ Pace).
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    The most infuriating part of signing Dalton would IMO be that it makes the Foles trade that much worse. If you like him, even just as a backup, why the horsefeathers did you give up a 4th for Foles and his contract at this time last year?
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    Feels like the opening day pen is mostly set after the signings of Workman/Tepera/Chafin right before camp. CL - Kimbrel SU - Workman SU - Chafin MRP - Winkler MRP - Tepera MRP - Adam MRP - Maples MRP - #2 Lefty (Brothers, probably?) LRP - Alzolay or Miller, pending whether Alzolay has a MiLB option left Adam has an option, but no reason to think he doesn't have a hold on a spot. And then this is likely Maples' last shot at locking a spot down.
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    Good pitching day today, though as seems to keep happening it's while they're at a park without Statcast
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    I believe this pulls the Bears out of the red cap-wise, but not by much
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    So.....Dillon Maples this spring: 4 Outings - 21 batters faced, 6 strikeouts, 0 walks, 1 dong, 10 groundballs I don't want to get worked up over 4.1 ST innings, and the balls he's allowed in the air have seemingly all been stung, but it's hard to not notice this what he's doing with his new delivery.
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    I really wish we could get a resolution on Wilson so I could know what to root for. Like, if we're actually getting him, then yeah let's do every restructure and every cap saving move possible. Because of the league-wide cap issues, we're going to see a ton of quality players take 1 year deals in a good situation and re-enter the market next year. If we've got Wilson, we're a prime spot for those guys. Don't stress about losing depth because like you said we can probably replace guys for less, and maybe even upgrade while doing so. But if we're not getting a star at QB, I have little appetite for pushing current cap pain forward into future seasons. I don't want to make future seasons worse for the sake of putting a slightly better team around Teddy Bridgewater.
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    Yeah 97-99 would have been really fun. For Megill in particular, since he's so horsefeathering tall, his perceived velocity is probably going to be 1-2 MPH higher than his actual. I think there's two groups that I'm excited to see. 1. The Golden Arms - The guys who have the stuff today, no need for projection, but need to prove it against hitters in the upper minors. Marquez if he fails as a starter, and then Manny Rodriguez and Burl Carraway 2. The Pitch Lab/Instructs Darlings - The guys who have gotten far more interesting since they last pitched in real games because of glowing reports from last fall's Instructs or because of interesting Statcast data from the Pitch Lab or Driveline. Trevor Megill, Brendon Little, Ethan Roberts, Justin Steele, and Bryan Hudson all qualify here. There's also the more typical channels. A guy like James Norwood, who has historically thrown hard but done nothing else, could figure out a something else and start contributing. A fringey SP like Tyson Miller could be a lot more fun with the RP velocity boost. Those will always be unpredictable sources of relief help. But the 8 names above are the ones I really have my eye on
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    Jayson Stark with a good deep dive I love this BTW. Obviously not all of these will (or should) be implemented in the majors, but let's get real data on the impact of each, and figure out which ones should stay. I also like the not so subtle implication that stolen bases are coming back one way or another.
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    Little, Miller and Megill pitching is fun especially since the Rockies park has Statcast enabled
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    Riddick is buddy buddy with our FO, right?
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    Bleacher Nation's Bears content is a significant step down from their Cubs stuff, but they laid out a pretty compelling case that for cap reasons we pretty much can't deal Mack in a Wilson trade. It's basically untenable financially for both sides until after June 1st. IF a Wilson trade happens, its probably gonna be a bunch of picks and one of Nichols/Johnson/Roquan.
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    The betting books thing is interesting, because that's been a legit tipoff for big moves before. I guess my question is does it also happen when stuff's not going down, and it only gets pointed out when the timing is interesting?
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    It's certainly in flux right now but the Cubs' bullpen is going to be outrageous in the medium to long term
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    I know bat speed =/= exit velocity, but it's still interesting to me that every number you can find says Amaya's bat is legit, but scouts keep hemming and hawing about it.
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    Kimbrel looked pretty bad again. That said, given his arc last year I'm not gonna worry for another few weeks.
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    Megill sitting 97-99 is fun as hell
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