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Maybe more a Netflix drama series:). Definitely had some issues but in the end if he turns the corner on health and performance I don't care.

Not really. It is about total days of service time in that year, it doesn't matter when they send him down. You get a year of service time when you are up at least 172 days (of 180 something) in that year so if Vaughn is down more than 15 days or so the sox gets the extra year. However I don't see the sox Front office sending him down for 2 weeks. Either he turns the corner the next two weeks and he stays up or he gets send down for at least 6-8 weeks to work on his batting and fielding in AAA.

I certainly hope they are not using him on short rest.

Also don't forget the sox had a pretty tough schedule apart from KC and Seattle. Fangraphs full season win projections Boston 89 LAA 86 Cleveland 82 Seattle 74 Royals 80 So apart from the last two those are solid teams and even the Latter two had hot starts (8-5 and 9-6). This shouldn't be an excuse but I bet it was one of the tougher schedules without any true bottom feeders.

Wouldn't worry about that, he has to get used to mlb stuff. He has a good eye but mlb pitches just move differently. I wonder if the Sox have overrated the alternate site thing a little though. Longenhagen was always sceptical about this, he said Sim game ABs are less competitive, you face the same pitchers over and over and pitchers won't be as willing to pitch on the hands because Nobody wants to take out a top100 prospect with a fractured wrist. Not sure why they wouldn't give him some more time in AAA. In the end it wasn't an easy decision though you had the scouting reports and good looks at the alt site vs him never playing above high A and doing well there but not destroying it either. The Sox decided the former is more reliable but maybe it wasn't. I think he should Still be given the next two weeks but if he doesn't hit by then send him down

He always had that "hitch". Josh Donaldson has a hitch too, it is only problematic if it is not well timed. If you use a hitch to load you need to drop the hands as you lift the foot so the hands are back up as you land. If you do it later it becomes an issue.

Vaughn should definitely play regularly until at least early may. Sending him down now makes no sense because Sox have no real replacement and also there's no minor league season currently. But he does look a little overmatched currently and if he isn't hitting when Engel is back they might send him down for a month or two

Should have hit the cutoff. Wasn't getting that guy and allowed guy to reach second by throwing home directly.

Yermin is not familiar with the green monster yet. Good hit and a double or Homer elsewhere but in Boston that is often a single if the LF plays it well of the wall.

He had like 30 ABs, give him some time. But maybe some AAA time would help him

I read rocker was struggling and his velo was down to low 90s his last starts.

It is amazing how good of a breaking ball hitter yermin is. He has a. 460 wOBA against breaking balls this year. He does that super early leg kick but then has great balance on the rear leg. That makes him very hard to pitch to.

I wonder what kind of hitter Vaughn will be. It is already apparent that he has great patience and he can turn on balls in certain locations. Currently his K rate is a little high at 30%, however he still is getting used to mlb pitching and already starting to lower his K rate (first week high 30s, this more mid 20s) and I expect that K rate to be better than average (19-20% maybe) eventually. I do start to see the konerko comp a bit. Both had good K to bb rates and around 30 hr pop but the other thing I start to see is that Vaughn pulls the ball a lot. As I said in the other thread right now he doesn't handle the ball away well and he is pulling the ball a lot. I did not see that before but even in the minors he had quite high pull rates (mid to high 40s). That is maximizing is power output but also will hurt his babip if he keeps that up. That is were a bit of variability comes into play. Vaughn has good but not monster power that he can tap into very well. Now there is a decision whether he wants to be a 30 HR guy who pulls the ball a lot but runs babips in the. 270s like konerko did or whether he works on staying on the outside pitch more and use the whole field which he has the bat control to do so but might mean he is more of a 22-25 Homer guy who can hit 300. Either way I think he will be fine

Yeah it wasn't super difficult to get there as he was playing deep already and the ball was hanging up a long time but the wall was well timed.

I think he will be fine but he has a big hole in the outer half of the zone. I already saw that in spring, first they tried to bust him in and he turned on that very well but then in the second half of spring they adjusted and threw him more away and he did not much with that. His head map supports that, he did not have many ABs but he has literally not hit anything in the outer half of the plate https://www.fangraphs.com/players/andrew-vaughn/26197/heat-maps?position=OF&ss=&se=&hand=&count=&pitch=&season=&view=bat&data=&grid=&blur=&type=5 He needs to work on staying on that outside pitch longer and not cut across the zone so much. At lower levels he did not need to do that as he could just wait for his pitch with his good plate discipline but in the majors he can't have such a big hole because pitchers can locate. Once he improves that he will be a tough out.

No way eloy is the odd man out, that probably still is yermin if Vaughn starts hitting.

He just stole that strikeout though with his framing.

Didn't yoan have a play a home there?

I think Eaton really was a solid addition. He had a very bad season last year and his power might be a bit on decline but his plate discipline is back on track this season (10% walks, 18 Ks) and if he can post a 350 obp with 12 homers or so he will help the team a lot. I think against righty pitchers he should lead off.

Congrats, what field did you did your doctorate in?

The balls were directly hit at Vaughn, TLR would have caught them if he skipped the beer today:).

Schwarber is pretty bad Defensively too though. I think the white Sox shouldn't Punt too much defense. How about getting one of Jesse winker or Tyler naquin from the Reds? The Reds really have one outfielder too many so one has to sit and might be opening to trade one. I know naquin was a first baseman too but he lost some weight and unlike schwarber or Vaughn he is actually quite fast and athletic.

Nick williams sprint speed in 2019 (didn't find later values) was 27.8, Vaughn is at 25.8. Sprint speed is not everything but on top of beeing super slow Vaughn also has literally no Of experience. Williams Of numbers are mostly bad from CF, he was like average in LF. I'm not saying I want Williams instead of Vaughn but if Vaughn plays every day in LF that will be one of the worst defensive seasons of all time in LF because of both his lack of speed and lack of experience. He actually did a decent job so far not having any huge Gaffes and he did catch the routine fly balls but most of those a 50 yo beer league softball player would probably have caught too. So far Vaughn was lucky he mostly got routine fly balls and balls way out of his range but as the season goes on there will be situations with a ball toward the line or a short one which he doesn't reach with bases loaded costing two or three runs and over a season that adds up. Vaughn is not an everyday left fielder and expecting that from him would be unfair, his position is DH and 1b with occasional fill ins in LF.

Every rebuilding team probably who has a guy who is 30+. Depends on whether the Sox are willing to take on some salary.

Vaughn isn't a left fielder though and he is not learning it, with a 25.8 ft/s sprint speed no amount of experience will help you there. Vaughn always will be an emergency solution in left, Hahn needs to make a trade soon and send vaughn to the minors as soon as the minor league season starts.