Kris Bryant Needs Competition

Before reading this article, I will direct you here. That link is an article from bleachernation.com that was written this morning. The line for Bryant there was .349/.452/.667. For those who are new to baseball or who are not baseball fans, let me put that in simple terms. Kris Bryant is absolutely mutilating AA pitching right now, and that's an understatement. There's a lot that can be taken from this though, in a bonus 2 posts in 1 day from me.

Grading the Bears 2013 Offseason Moves

As much as we can speculate over what this offseason's moves will mean to the team and how good they'll be, but the bottom line is that we can't get a real idea of how good the offseason moves were until the team has had a chance to actually play with those new additions. So here we're going to go over last season's offseason moves. To be honest, we still really don't know the full scope of how good or bad these moves were, but at least we have a real idea at this point. I'm not going over all of the moves, but will cover the ones that were intended to make a real difference to the team (more than just a futures contract). I also won't bother with them bringing guys back unless there was something more to it.

Cubs Thoughts From Recent Events and a Short Bears Thought

So the Cubs have made some waves recently with their Manny Ramirez signing. It's a signing that has really brought out plenty of people in support and in opposition. Not only that, but there is rising excitement in the minor league system as well. Also, OTA's are underway from the Bears, and I have some opinions on different things from that as well.

Random Chicago Sports Notes

The majority of this post will go back to the Bears, but a few things are actually happening in Chicago sports right now. There's good and bad. The best being the Blackhawks taking a 1 game lead in the Western Conference Finals against the Los Angeles Kings, which I just finished watching. Another good thing is that the Cubs just took another series, their second in the last 5, which doesn't sound good until you realize that they went through 9 to start the year without a win. In the middle of that is 3 upcoming drafts. On the bad side would be the White Sox in a bit of a funk lately as well as losing Jose Abreu for a couple of weeks.

Where do the Bears Stand Now?

The Cubs are playing the Cardinals right now, but I still can't get myself enough into baseball this year, despite the Cubs quick 7 run lead in the first of the 3 game set. The White Sox have Jose Abreu and his quick start, but they're under .500 and just lost 3 out of 4 to possibly the worst team in baseball (yes, possibly even worse than the Cubs). The Blackhawks have been doing great, but I admit to not being as hockey savvy as I am with the other 3 major sports, even though I've followed it for just as long as everything except for baseball. The Bulls are done, and I just couldn't get into the season at all once Rose went back down. However, with football there is some hope. Sure, I even gave up on the football season pretty quickly, as the injuries piled up for the Bears at a furious pace, and they seemingly never really had a chance, although they did come too close to the playoffs.

Well, we are just coming off one of the most hopeful times of the year. The draft always brings a new hope. That on top of an excellent free agency and plenty of injured players returning healthy, and there is a lot of hope that the Bears are moving forward from with this point. The entire NFC North had their drafts praised. Then again, Ted Thompson could draft all longsnappers for the Packers and the media would call him a genius. Anyway, I'm going to go over all of the drafts for all of the teams, compare them to what the Bears did, and from there go into who the Bears have and what their depth charts may possibly look like (or may look like further into the offseason or even once the season gets underway).

How Did the Bears Do In the Draft?

So the draft is now over. The Bears wound up making 8 picks and signing 9 undrafted free agents. I already went over what I thought about the first round pick, but I'll go back over that and everyone else they added to the team in this post. There's 17 guys to go over, so I'm not wasting any more time, let's go.

Thoughts On The Kyle Fuller Pick

Spoiler alert!!! Oh wait, it's already in the subject. So anyway, the Bears made their pick around an hour ago, and it was the Cornerback out of Virginia Tech. Fuller's got a lot of football in his blood. However, there was a roller coaster of emotions. I hadn't even mentioned him earlier today, but I did consider it. I just felt that he was too close to the middle in between the Bears picks where they wouldn't draft him, and he wouldn't fall to them in the 2nd round. Well, I was wrong on that I guess, and the Bears made him the 14th overall pick.

My Final Bears Draft

Okay, the draft starts in 20 minutes from when I am typing this very sentence. With that being said, I'm not going to go into a lot of detail over what this is or type some exciting opening paragraph (sorry, no firsts tonight). I'm saying who I think the Bears wind up with, not trying to do any sort of novelty, but who I think they really do wind up with.

My Attempt At Emery Picks

I know, I know, there's the crosstown series going on and I'm not saying anything about it. Well, personally, I've never gotten too into the series. First off, while I am a Cubs fan first, I've never held any hatred for the White Sox, and I even grew up watching the Cubs during the day and the Sox during the night. They represent the same city that I love, and they play in different leagues. It was minor enough when they played a whopping 6 games against each other, now it's down to 4. It's not a real rivalry, at best it's a novelty rivalry, and I really don't care too much about it. So with that to the side, what I'm going to try to do tonight is pull off the impossible and figure out who is going to be drafted by Emery in this upcoming draft. The toughest part of doing this is getting that guy the Bears will draft. Emery tends to draft a position that everyone knows he'll draft, but the player he drafts is always the surprise. So what I'm going to try to do is take guys that fit that Emery mold. A bit of a reach, but not a huge reach, and athletic or otherwise physically gifted. So here it goes!