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Its funny a guy with 245 minor league plate appearances in 2019 and a camp in 2020 is supposed to come to the major leagues in 2021 as a finished product, all the while playing out of position. The guy is going to be a great hitter. He showed it after a tough start. He ended poorly. It could have been an injury or it could be he hit a wall as he never played that many games in his life.

An appropriate response to a post that called my comments silly. And there you go again...

Can you imagine Frank or Paulie in the outfield? Vaughn was fantastic under the circumstances. He's a good athlete who can hit. I have every faith that he will be a big bat in a year or two. He is the heir apparent at 1st base. We need a bit of patience until his time comes.

He’s silly.

I didn’t even realize you can view each individual reaction like that. Thank you.

It also means being in the bottom group requires you to be extraordinarily bad. the Bears are.

FIFY

We don't need to package Vaughn with Kimbrel. That would be dumb.

I am not saying he’s a good OF, but using his OF skills to diminish his value is not fair. He was drafted to be a 1B, was expected play 1B exclusively, and literally learned how to play OF on the fly, in his first season in MLB. Not to mention, his time in the minors to hone his hitting craft was non-existent. The fact that he had to learn how to hit MLB pitching, essentially skipping the minors, while playing a position nothing remotely close to the 1B tells me how much better he might been offensively last season if he could have just concentrated more on hitting. Or you know, spent a full year in the minors above A ball, to concentrate on hitting. It also tells me what kind of hitter he can become in the following seasons. The fact that he’s a hard worker and seems to have decent baseball intelligence also bodes well. I know this stuff has been repeated a lot in his defense, but it shouldn’t be understated. Three of the best hitters in White Sox history have been RH 1B/DH types. If the guy can hit like many believe he can, no one will be complaining about his position or handedness. A lot of White Sox and fans of other teams are clamoring to give Castellanos contracts up to 5/100. Castellanos realistically shouldn’t be classified any differently than a slow RH 1B/DH type. And at age 23, posted a “pathetic” .721 OPS and 1.3 bWAR. Vaughn is under control for the next 5 years for pennies. Trading him and not getting another cost controlled elite talent that fills a hole (SP) is pointless, short sighted and will be a mistake. Maybe trading him at all will be a mistake. I just don’t agree at all that Vaughn’s rookie season revealed anything negative about the dude’s talent or value. Again, he’s not untouchable by any means, but the way some posters are just casually throwing his name around in trades just for the hell of it is odd. And for Tray’s question, no, I would not trade him for Bellinger. That’s silly.

A lot of people b**** about weather forecasts, but it's amazing how that model literally got what the line of storms looked like.

Here’s another way to look at it: I think many would agree with me that one of the largest issues facing our nation today is the vastly widening “wealth gap.” Every cent the players wrest from the owners widens the wealth gap. The “pie” that the owners/players are fighting over is the liquid operating revenue of each franchise. They are NOT fighting over the masses of illiquid wealth and equity that the owners hold. An increase in the percentage of the operating revenue that goes to the players is a decrease in the percentage of the revenue that goes to paying for everything that makes the game happen, which includes the money that pays for the salaries of every worker in the organization. I can tell you, firsthand, that the teams will not operate beyond their means for any significant period of time. I can also tell you, firsthand, that the bottom line is a direct input on the available player payroll in a given year. If the operating revenue is lower in favor of the player payroll, this means fewer seasonal workers, fewer salaried benefits, fewer infrastructure investments (which puts franchise money into the hands of local businesses), etc. Note that I am NOT defending ownership with this argument. I’m simply illustrating that a “win” for the players union is not a “win for labor” in the sense that people imagine it is. I am all for supporting better wealth distribution in this country. Wealth distribution between one-percenters is NOT that. Narratives that make the financial “struggles” of one-percenters seem like the struggles of the average person are PR campaigns.

For the people on their high horse supporting the MLBPA, just know this is a group who cares about nothing but getting more money for its existing members. Why bump up the minimum salary when the vast majority of current players are off their rookie contracts? Who cares about the poor minor leaguers who sleep six deep in a rundown apartment unit and have to eat KFC and Domino’s seven days a week. And fuck those poor LatAm kids who have to be subjected to disgusting predatory practices when the MLBPA can ensure that Max Scherzer is able to buy a few more Lambo’s. No matter how you want to slice it, this is a fight between millionaires and billionaires. Sure, the players probably deserve a larger share of the pie, but anyone losing an ounce of energy over this has all the wrong priorities in life. Neither the owners or the MLBPA could give a fuck about the customers, minor leaguers, or non player personnel. As such, people like Parkman & Ray Ray taking a hard side in a fight between the rich and the super rich is absolutely hilarious.

The players do not need our sympathy and the owners do not deserve it.

No, it truly sounds like you enjoy it.

Yes, but at least they're all time greats and hall of famers. Who tf is looking up Dalbec LOL.. Maybe Shoeless Joe boosted due to the Field of Dreams game.

God, I love Tennessee. Go Vols!

I don’t know, the Joe Jackson and Hank Aaron stand out a bit too.

all names are understandable..... And then you see Bobby Dalbec LOL

I agree. Would you be satisfied with Rodon as that starter?

This story sounds like bullshit. The year Luis Robert got to 6 home runs in A+ was in 2019. During that year, it took him a mere 13 games to get to 6 home runs. He was promoted from A+ after 19 games while posting a ridiculous .920 slugging percentage. Who would doubt the power potential of a guy with that robust slugging percentage and home run rate? The repeated use of "kid" and "little" is cringeworthy. Your buddy sounds jealous tbh.