Chicago Bears: Is Mitchell Trubisky the next Javier Baez/Yoan Moncada?

The Chicago Bears are hoping that Mitchell Trubisky could have a similar turnaround to two stars from Chicago’s baseball teams.

The Chicago Bears have a lot on their plate when football gets going. They have one of the best defenses (if not the number one best) in the National Football League. That means that bad quarterback play has kept them down over the past year and will continue to keep them down if it doesn’t get better. They traded a fourth-round pick for Nick Foles earlier this offseason to compete with Mitchell Trubisky for the starting job.

The Bears took Trubisky with the second overall pick in the 2017 NFL Draft ahead of studs like Deshaun Watson and Patrick Mahomes and he has been awful, especially in 2019. He seems to be getting one more chance to be the Bears starting quarterback as they didn’t pick up his fifth-year option. If this year goes poorly for him, he will be gone.

There are two baseball stars in this town that make you wonder if we should give Trubisky one chance to rebound from his lousy 2019 season. Friend of the program, David Kaplan, discussed the topic on his ESPN 1000 show “Kap and Co.” with his co-hosts about the fact that they need to “let things play out”. They used that logic because of the rebound that Javier Baez had with the Chicago Cubs.

Baez was awful in his rookie 2014. He was so bad that he was in trade rumors and a deal with the San Diego Padres was extremely close to happening. Now in 2020, it is clear how bad of a trade that would have ended up being. Javy proved that letting it all play out is sometimes the best possible strategy because the Cubs now have an MVP level player on their roster.

I’ll even do Kap one better, how about Yoan Moncada? He was so awful in 2018 and struck out a billion times for the Chicago White Sox. It was tough to see Moncada truly ever living up to being one of the world’s best baseball prospects but in 2019 he made us all look bad by being a top-ten hitter and third in the American League. It was an incredible turnaround for both of these guys and now both of them are some of the best players in the world.

Now, keep in mind that Moncada and Baez might both be players that are so good that they go to the Hall of Fame one day. Nobody, including Kap and company, is saying that will happen for Trubisky. What we’re saying is that we let things play out with those two guys and look how it turned out. Trubisky doesn’t even have to become one of the league’s best like Moncada or Baez, he just needs to be average and this football team will win games. Hopefully, something like this could happen.