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This is sounds nice, but you just wrote a lot of words to really say "I'm going to form an opinion on something I don't really know anything about." In 110 PA's, he's dropped his K% from 22.3% with the Sox in 2025 to 14.5% with the Brewers. His BB% is 10.0 with the Brewers, was 3.6 with the Sox. He's being more selective at the plate. His launch angle is also significantly lower with the Brewers than it was with the Sox, with indicates a change in approach. No one, including myself, believe Andrew Vaughn is now a 1.000 OPS guy for the rest of his career. He'll cool off. But it's become clear the Brewers are getting the most out of Vaughn, unlocked something in him, and he's helped them tremendously achieve the best record in baseball at this point. And I would expect him to be a key contributor moving forward for the Brewers, something he wasn't with the Sox. I'm not upset the Sox moved on, it clearly wasn't working here. Vaughn ended his Sox career with a -0.5 career WAR over 2400 PA's. It didn't work. But it's frustrating to see another organization, an organization that is light years better than the Sox, find real success with him.

We gotta give credit where it's due. Getz is no longer the devil. He's made some great moves including picking up this Mead guy. As well as Tauchman and the others we discuss a lot. Folks, it's time to raise a glass to Getz. I'm thinking he 'gets it' in terms of talent evaluation, baby. BTW: Quero and Teel are for real IMO. Any current or former haters of Getz willing to raise your glass with me to toast (not roast anymore) him?

Did you just compare two of the best GMs of our generation to...Chris Getz?

I normally don't miss a moment to point fingers at Sox for being so complacent at everything, especially PD, compared to Peers (they only judge whether they are improving against themselves, even if they are still light years behind other teams). But Vaughn will always be a loser to me. Him getting sent down was still a highlight of the year. I hope he comes back to earth eventually and sucks. He was supposed to elevate that core, they believed in him, he was lazy and stubborn and sucks. Good riddance.

Good for AV. Happy for him. Sox have been much more interesting since he's been gone.

The Sox are a horrible look for Sox player development, team is straight awful

Vaughn’s explosion is a horrible look for Sox player development

The Sox are playing 200 games this season.

That IF is doing some HEAVY lifting, much like IF Southsider wins the powerball tonight, he will not go to work tomorrow.

I have a lot of experience with aches and pains, 65 years of golf along with 25 years of tennis plus all the sports I played in my school years but I’m still able to tee it up 2-3 times a week and ride my bike.

Getz is promoted to double secret probation for one season.

Folks, I think it's time to ask ourselves: Was Vaughn capable of being the best Sox first baseman since Frank? I worship Paulie and Abreu, but in Milwaukee, Vaughn's bat is showing a lot of OOMPH. It makes me question if the Sox can develop OOMPH (a better indicator than WAR). I think they should trade back for him. Maybe give the Brewers that struggling lefty they drafted.

I’m starting to believe that he knows what he’s doing, his biggest problem is he’s working for a cheap jerk. If he continues to improve, it will be interesting if Ishbia keeps him around.

The best and worst thing about the Rate is it is just generic. Run of the mill stadium design, nothing special about it, no real memorable features. But it’s a stadium and it works, it’s not falling apart, so there is that

Thank you @Y2Jimmy0, @Sleepy Harold and whoever else posts here and contributes to FutureSox. It's an awesome publication and the top prospect lists are always a treat. I hope in the near future when Ishbia takes over the Sox will be a world class organization with a large fanbase so more people can appreciate what you put out there.

No prospect within the top 30 in the MLB and not too many exciting prospects after their first 12. Seems reasonable.

It can get worse??

Yikes. To be fair, if they want to sign/work with him again, they can sign him in the offseason. I hope they aim higher though.

Came so close to sweeping the Tigers, hitting disappeared in 2 of the games, we scored more runs in the series.

Doesn't really matter, but that strike 2 call on Teel was rough

Crazy that was only 1 run. Offense needs to wake up now

The break seems to have gotten him back on track, which makes me think fatigue.

Very nice back to back starts for Smith

Just saw the Brewers play the Cubs 5 games next week. If I was still in Chicago I'd go to a game in a Vaughn Sox jersey just to piss off Cubs fans.

lol I know you meant Benny's but I definitely did not read it like that.

Chat GPT has been brainwashed by Cubs fans!

To each their own on other parks' aesthetics, of course. But that warehouse building at Petco is a real turn of the century historic landmark building that was already there. And the Padres have turned into a functional part of the stadium with party suites, a bar, and a team store. This doesn't strike me as phony quirkiness, but that's just my opinion. I Googled MLB ballpark rankings right now.....I don't think Sox fans are going to like the results. Almost all have the park very near the bottom of the 28 parks (excluding Oakland and Tampa Bay). I found only one so far that ranked it at 21, but that appears to be an outlier. It ranks Rate Field ahead of Truist Park.

100%. This exists throughout all walks of life and work too. You can have an incredibly talented team, but their skill sets simply don't align so you can't get the most out of any of those skills. Your GM is supposed to be the facilitator and maximize the team structure in a way that they can get the most out of their assets skill sets and strengths. If you have a head of pitching development that excels at maxing spin, velo and release, but your lead scouts and minor league pitching coaches strengths were maximizing endurance, release repeatability and command, on the surface you'd think you have it all covered but the reality is you have people in both spots delivering a message that the other can't maximize. In baseball, if you are going to find an edge it'll be a niche edge that you need to master and then you need to commit to it. It doesn't mean you throw everything else by the wayside, but it means all you care about being is average/in-line with others in other areas while you master your niche. The Sox didn't actually have a problem mastering a niche historically, there problem was being average in the areas they didn't invest in. With Getz' White Sox, I think that niche is still a big unknown while he's focused on bringing other areas up to average. As I've said before though, nobody ever won anything consistently by merely copying what others were doing. You need an edge, and I have yet to see it. The step back pitching took this year is a huge kick in the dick.

Here's a fun TWIB segment about the banners. There was a group of fans who sat in left field every game who had a whole supply of them that they'd drape over the outfield walls- slogans for each batter, an eye chart after a bad call. etc. It certainly was more creative than all the ads that cover the walls of every ballpark now.

His qualification is dealing with Reinsdorf. No seasoned or experienced GM would ever take that job. Jerry also probably didn't want to hear how flawed he is doing interviews.

I hate that he didn't work as hard here and don't really care how he does going forward but I love love love that he is currently making my Cubs fan friends miserable. So thank you for that, Andrew.

Considering how low a site like Pipeline has the farm system rated now, I’m still confident in saying he won’t even come close to sniffing top 100 lists.

Do you think Gomez gets another start after last night's performance ? I know Perez is getting close but I would like to see Gomez again.

I don't even think another club can request an interview unless it's for a clear promotion, which means that teams would have to interview Getz for PBO. That's ludicrous.

I will never understand why Sox fans spend so much time caring about how much time people talk about the Cubs. It's such a weird flex. Me personally, I will take the rings, but I have also found it odd that such a weird love affair was given to a 4th place team from 1977 either.

The White Sox were apparently last.

why?

why do you like the padres so much anyway, holden?

I think it's a streak. He's going to finish the season at or below his career averages and negative WAR, won't he? The law of averages is undefeated. It's magic. He didn't suddenly become a superstar by moving 80 miles north. I doubt he woke up one day and said to himself, "I'd prefer to make $10 million dollars instead of 0 dollars -- I'm going to start trying at my job". Maybe a little bit, it was probably a wake up call, but at the end of the day, we've pretty much seen what kind of player he is...a pretty good player that can probably show a little more than what what we saw in Chicago. But he probably isn't an all-star or a top 50 hitter. He's done enough to have his option picked up, which is great. I'd take Pseudo-Vaughn over Rhys Hoskins at half the cost. But it's 106 plate appearances with Milwaukee vs 2451 with us. It isn't really a sample size. He's facing an atypical amount of lefties. It's random. His stats were bound to average out and he seems to be in a really good environment for him. Watching him this year with us, it's not like he regressed. He looked the same. He was unlucky but pretty much the same guy. I'm not really watching the Brewers, but is he doing anything different? It might be a confidence/mental thing, but can that be sustained over the life of a post-arbitration contract? We're seeing that 'deadline superstar' Eugenio Suarez is going to average out to a slightly above average hitter in line with his highly variable career averages, as such there's probably a reason he didn't net a huge return and why the Yankees didn't bother to give up anything for him and might've even preferred Ryan McMahon (who has been marginally better than Eugene, a whole 0.9 bWAR better since the trade). These stats are very much influenced by minor perturbations, is there any actual reason to believe that Vaughn is a different player? To his credit, he's hitting a lot of bombs not in line with his career averages. Is there evidence to suggest he can sustain it? I think to myself: I've watched him play ball for several years, is he all of a sudden "that guy"? Is team chemistry infectious like it was when Texas won the World Series? I suspect nobody really knows what they're talking about in this sport (besides the people at FutureSox, shout out, lucky us; J Gonzalez is budding star though), sometimes guys just get hot for extended periods. Part of the reason baseball is the best sport, these things are just mystical. There's no understanding it. The physicists and materialists say the fastball cannot possibly rise, that gravity doesn't work that way, meanwhile baseball legend Mookie Betts says, "get in the batter's box and see for yourself". I think it's a streak.

I knew it. EZ win. this is the type of win that strikes fear in the heart of LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers. oh wait, wrong sport and time period. The new YoYo (YoeYoe?) rocks. The cutter was nasty. The curveball was unhittable. Those pitches were moving like crazy. 95 MPH sinker. His stuff looked really good. I'm surprised he threw 90 pitches on top of that. He didn't do that at Charlotte. The Yankees and Dodgers failed him, but can the Sox help him be his best self? Can the neo-Sox be the Devil Rays with a big market budget? Will the new front office spend real money on a free agent or continue to cut payroll? I don't understand why the Yankees cut him, he was quite good for their AAA affiliate, but man, what a heartening performance. I never heard of this guy and he looked like a star and like he can repeat it.

As Ringo sang, It don't come easy.

Winnah! 12-11 since the All-Star break.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=muraka000mun Back from injury...finally. OPS of almost 1.100 for less than a month with Yakult. Sasaki also coming back soon. Will be fascinating to see if Murakami comes over or waits one more year. Muncy Bregman (option to leave likely exercised) LAD Boston Yankees will all have a big say.

3rd place with 90 wins. It was such a "love affair" because they were garbage in 1976, hadn't had a winning season since 1972 and literally came out of nowhere to provide a fun, exciting summer instead of another drag through the muck of a 95 loss season. 192 home runs didn't hurt either.

That moment was the peak of that core. From like a "heat index" perspective, that was the highest they would have been since 2005. And it was all downhill from there.

the night of his homer in the corn game is probably the most optimistic i've ever been about the sox's long-term chances. i was convinced he was about to lead us to multiple championships. instead, it was all downhill.

In recent years is there a single business in Illinois that built its own infrastructure? Expressway ramps, local streets, etc are the domain of the state. If the Bears pay for a expressway on off ramp, would they be allowed to charge tolls? I don't like govt paying for stadiums but the roads to get there, that's the govt job.

Bowden...nuff said. No one should be using his opinion as proof of anything.