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It's sad to see how normalized this is. 3 consecutive 100+ loss seasons (assuming 2025 continues to be poor), potentially back-to-back seasons of having the most losses in MLB history, very little progress in the minors from position players, and there's an extremely vocal (albeit small) group here that is just... ok with it. This isn't "just how rebuilds go"

Yes yes no murders correct

Correction: Pallette faced 7 guys in 2IP. 1 single. Struck out the other six guys.

The entire MLB draft process needs to be burned to the ground and redone. They’ve somehow made it more difficult for bad teams to get better under the guise of “you need to spend more $” while there’s 0 teeth behind it to enforce anything. Scum bag owners like Jerry simply say “No Thanks” and nothing happens other than the fans continue to suffer

Ideally. But you can’t argue with the production

Chris Getz:

It's like he doesn't wanna be here. He doesn't care..

Go away palacios

Vargas looking good. Kept his hands back

Burke has been fine. 5 IP 2 ER is totally acceptable. That inning is on Luis, who appears to be fine taking a big pay cut on $20M for 2026.

If they want to not have him catch, fine. But then he should be DHing

Dunn is not an mlb option. It’s all off speed and fear of contact. 4 bb so far.

Glad to see Colson hit the ball hard to the opposite field even though it was an out. Key to his funk imho is more approach than swing.

Rather give Dalbec some run

depends how drunk I get and if Caulfield is giving the play by play

As if things aren't bad enough. 😝

Getz is not as competent as said rodent imo.

Unless you have elite starting pitchers, why wouldn't you use an opener the vast majority of the time? You are going to use the bullpen anyway. If you get the opposite handedness, it forces the other manager's hand, and his bench is either blown in the 3rd inning or your opener is going to be R/R or L/L for the most part.

@Timmy U called it. 15 Prospects Pushing for Top 100 Cosideration. https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/15-mlb-prospects-outside-the-top-100-who-have-stood-out-early-in-2025/

Fedde was a grand slam homer on his own merits. It's what we got for him that was a disaster.

Such a weak draft, I don't think you can just say OH MAN TE AT 10!? Johnson got his guy, I'm fine with it. No other pick was obvious there anyways.

You can look at in two ways. 1. Bears could have gotten a really good player that other teams we're also high on.... 2. There probably was a market for the Bears to trade down

I totally get what you’re saying, but I feel like we kept expecting Yoan, Timmy and Eloy to turn it around because they had been good in the past. It’s the craziest thing I’ve ever seen in baseball where seemingly 4 above average players in their peak just all lost their ability.

The fact that there's a special round of picks and they are the only picks that can get traded and their pool counts towards the larger pool is so fucking stupid.

Subracting one from infinity doesn't really improve things.

Robert should consider converting to Jobuism

Interested to watch this game in a minor league park.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8jnQv11/ shadeur sanders built himself a custom draft room 😬 edit: it appears he had a bad night in even more ways https://www.reddit.com/r/nflmemes/s/e4vdXnm0zC

I would never defend Jerry, but during the .500 season under TLR, it became apparent the whole thing had to be blown up and scraped from the Earth. Top to bottom. That is with a crappy farm system. No amount of money would have fixed it. You can argue that hiring Getz was stupid, but from 2022 on, this franchise was doomed to something like a 8 year rebuild. The Sox arguably haven’t even started rebuilding yet. They are still in tear down mode as long as Vaughn and Robert are on the roster. So far, 3 guys have stepped forward to look cromulent — Smith, Quero, and Meidroth. They don’t have a core to add to, so even getting Soto and Burnes this offseason wouldn’t have made them competitive. Sadly, it’s gonna be a long and frustrating road.

The draft rules are backfiring when it comes to the Sox. Their incentive now is to tank twice as long because there’s no hope they are going to build quickly. Most of their viable offensive talent is in A ball, and this year’s draft is HS heavy. They won’t have any incentive to spend until like 2028.

Obvious answer now is that they trade Caleb and draft Sanders.

This was a tough one. The picks in front of the Bears were obviously a worst case scenario. They needed someone to take Sanders and for the DL/OL to drop. None of that happened. With the story of the draft being a lot of mid first round players, odds are solid that a lot of teams thought they didn't have to trade up to 10 to get a player they could get an equivalent of at 15 or 20.

Summerhill at 1-10 would be a ridiculous reach. College bats are down in this year’s draft. Strength is HS shortstops. That’s a demo that is traditionally pretty safe, too. I say they need to stay disciplined and draft best hitter available. Chances are that it’ll be a HS guy. Working out so far with Bonemer. One or two more guys like that added at 1-10 and 2-1 would go a long way.

I remember outlining what I felt were worst case scenarios where he lost the team, but I didn't imagine in my wildest nightmares that he had Monstar like powers to steal their abilities. Again, never seen anything like it.

I recall nothing like it in my baseball lifetime. And I will swear to my grave it all happened because of TLR. It just lines up so perfectly.

Kmet also most likely isn’t long for the organization. If they cut him after the season, believe there is only about 3 million in dead money. A few weeks ago BJ met the media and spoke on a bunch of different current Bears players, but when Kmet came up, his reviews weren’t as glowing. It was a specific topic on sports radio that day, as they found it somewhat telling the choice of words Johnson used when describing Kmet. Not saying it justifies the pick, but it’s clear BJ works the TE position into a lot of his offensive packages and I’m going to roll with him for now. Opinions can change quickly, however.

I would say Ray is right though, this pick is ultimately not to coexist with Kmet. Bears need more players that can play on time in this system. It’s not just Caleb. Keenan, kmet were slow off the line and to get to their spots. Loveland is getting those targets.

I would have too. He at least had correct body, measurable and a plausible upside argument. Just crazy because that would be a guy in the 20s normally. I would have liked Jalon walker too but it was so clearly a not good fit in the scheme. I hope we get the bc edge…but again…great talent but bad fit for us. He’d be destined to be a DPR. For as much as it was discussed bears didn’t have major holes…they have an injured LT, concussion prone S, no pass rush. Feasible options to get real talent in second round but if they go S/Edge the o line really needs investment starting next year.

I heard the Twins were offering a nice package but Poles didn't want it.

Not a lot of trade downs. this draft just was really bad. I wouldn’t draft a TE at 10…but also it is unusual to be at 10 and have such a dearth of premium positions prospects with the appropriate size or not horrendous character flags. Ballard is a “premium position” guy and took a TE at 14. Probably one of the more popular trade downs rumors with the bears was with Denver…so they could take a TE. Im just glad we didn’t trade up or do anything stupid. This felt like a 2013 draft where we’ll look back and just be amazed how few starters were available on the first round, let alone impact. Id probably still have tried with Mykell Williams. But I’d have lower confidence he’d be a long term starter than Loveland.

Might be somewhat of a nitpick, but I wouldn’t consider Steven Wilson a miss yet. He’s looked good recently and perhaps could be flipped for a prospect down the line.

That would have been worse.

I keep seeing this cited, but LaPorta is just another example as to why you shouldn't invest tier 1 picks on TE's. Sam was the 34th pick in the draft. Paying a premium for a TE when you're already paying a tight end is wild

We have no idea who’s going to continue to develop and stay healthy and who might implode. Us Sox fans should know that better than anyone. Just keep trying to stockpile players who can provide a positive WAR.

Bonemer again. 3 RBI game. Looks fantastic.

85-win Mariners draft 3rd. $11.1 Mill for #1 pick depreciates all the way down to $3.4 mill for the Guardians at #27. There's your incentive to tank right there: a 70% diminution in less than 1 round MLB draft is replete with counterproductive contrivances.

One day closer to him being fired.

Jerry would look for a way to trade it to another team.

10th pick is why there was absolutely zero fucking reason to divebomb last season. They literally couldn't tank. It was just pure suckage from Getz and JR.

Quite the statcast piece on Tim Elko today over at BA. https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/tim-elko-nate-eaton-headline-10-statcast-standouts-april-21/