It was also clearly predictable that he'd struggle to produce any surplus value when he signed it, even assuming 10 million per WAR in the FA market. He's the sort of signing we love to make, overpay for middling players rather than real stars.
one thing that stands out about danny is unlike some of our so called "sluggers" he does not fucking get cheated on his swings. Dude is up there to try and do damage from pitch 1 to whatever.
Most of what you're seeing there is value relative to position. Vaughn gets dinged something like 20 runs just being a 1st baseman relative to a catcher. And catchers get a massive positional bonus on the other end. I'm not sure if FGs publishes their positional value calculations but it's certainly pretty close to the traditional defensive spectrum with 1B and DH heavily penalized and CF, SS and C heavily rewarded.
This is dated but is a good explanation. I think the values are much more extreme now.
Bro literally my first day of offseason BP frosh year of DIII the coach was like "you're never gonna hit for any power with that load".
You watch a lot of other teams and they have guys selling out with huge leg kicks and loads and here our guys are looking to slap a grounder into the hole opposite way.