Look at Ray Ray Run

This feels very very right.

Gotta earn at bats by going 8-8 Vaughn, obviously. No one has earned at bats more than Nick Williams. Not for this team! Not with what he's been through and done for this organization.

What?

LOL my CBS Vaughn update: Andrew Vaughn 1B | CHW White Sox's Andrew Vaughn: Manager promises usage uptick

Here's me arguing why Mercedes should have been protected on the 40 man in 2019 and me arguing that Mercedes should have gotten at bats in 2019 as the back up catcher: So please spare me the "I taught Ray Ray about Mercedes" nonsense. Guess what? Mercedes likely still can't hit good breaking stuff, that hasn't changed. You can still be a productive MLB hitter without hitting breaking stuff. I wanted Collins to get a look over Mercedes at the end of 2020 because I would like the Sox to give Collins a fair shot given his age. That doesn't mean I dogged Mercedes.

Wait, are we back to using small samples again to draw vast conclusions? Nice! And I never laughed at anyone about Mercedes. You're back to making things up again.

Jake Lamb was an All-Star! What has Yermin Mercedes or Zack Collins ever done to earn the spot over an MLB all-star?!?!

This is only because there was such a huge difference in 2018 when Bieber wasn't good. Bieber is a much different pitcher now and since he actually started dominating big leaguers he has dominated lefties more than righties (although it's negligible and he kills everyone).

Splits vs Bieber since 2019: Season Handedness IP ERA TBF H 2B 3B R ER HR BB IBB HBP SO AVG OBP SLG wOBA 2021 vs L 5.2 - - - 26 3 0 0 1 1 0 5 0 0 12 .143 .308 .143 .236 2021 vs R 6.2 - - - 27 5 1 0 4 4 2 2 0 0 12 .200 .259 .480 .316 Season Handedness IP ERA TBF H 2B 3B R ER HR BB IBB HBP SO AVG OBP SLG wOBA 2020 vs L 37.2 - - - 142 20 3 0 6 6 1 11 0 0 57 .153 .218 .198 .194 2020 vs R 39.2 - - - 155 26 3 0 9 8 6 10 0 1 65 .181 .239 .326 .247 Season Handedness IP ERA TBF H 2B 3B R ER HR BB IBB HBP SO AVG OBP SLG wOBA 2019 vs L 101.1 - - - 408 87 17 0 40 35 18 20 0 3 127 .228 .271 .414 .288 2019 vs R 113.0 - - - 451 99 20 1 46 43 13 20 1 3 132 .231 .271 .374 .273 Guy has arguably been tougher on lefties than righties since he became good in the big leagues. Tony thinking he's outsmarting the world batting a bat lefty 5th vs him and starting another shitty lefty (Jake Lamb) at DH. Why the Fff is Collins' not DH'ing at the very least if you had this broken brain left/right theory.

For the 1000th time before I leave this thread, I am talking about his approach at the plate. I'm not sure what is so hard for you to grasp about this but it's clearly causing issues. Have a good one.

Since 2019, Bieber has been better vs lefties than Righties. Tony putting Nick Williams 5th in the order and Jake Lamb at DH is one of the funniest things I've seen this year.

You can misrepresent last year however you want, but it's not the slam dunk you're making it out to be. The Astros have argued they don't even want minor league games and seasons because there's more value in one on one coaching and sessions with your top prospects. Last year Vaughn was facing big league and AAAA talent much of his "year". We didn't get to see him, but the Sox did. So saying he's not ready because two years ago you were underwhelmed by post-college season minor league stats just isn't a valid critique imo.

Nothing is being used to my advantage. You shouldn't take a small sample and make it smaller. The OBP is being used to show his approach has been solid; it's been repeated to you over and over again. His approach has been good. Good approaches will typically lead to good results in the long run. You keep saying he looks terrible, and the rebuttal to that the entire thread has been his approach has been fine. His results could merely be better. He should play in LF because the Sox don't have a better option. This again isn't complicated.

So the White Sox couldn't have possibly not given all their cheap owners available money to a position that wasn't a team strength? Like they couldn't have signed Nelson Cruz instead of Liam Hendriks? I'm pretty sure they could have. I know you want to blame Jerry for everything, but the Sox 100% could have executed the off-season better with the funds they had available to them.

Nick Williams is far from a seasoned MLB LF'er him self is the issue.

What is this based on? Nick Williams LF range is well below average vs league average for his career. Advanced metrics are volatile in the OF for defense, so I don't want to cite anything as too telling, but you have no evidence of this at all.

No, his approach has been solid despite his contact not being great. That's the point of citing his OBP. I want Vaughn to play in LF so he has nothing to do with Mercedes. Nick Williams is not a good LF'er.

I mean, in general his sample is minuscule to begin with. Taking the already small sample and breaking it down to an 8 AB sample instead of 14 is just laughably pointless. Can't really analyze R/L splits when he's looking at less than 4 full games of AB's. He's having good AB's, seeing a lot of pitches and getting on base. He hasn't hit the ball all that hard yet, but again it's been like 4 games. Someone's approach is much more indicative of their readiness, IMO, than their numbers in their young career.

Getting on base 40% of the time is stupid and doesn't justify playing? Well that's quite the take.

Someone let Chitown and Tony know the Sox won. I'm sure they're in their garage crafting a new coffee table!

Nailed it!

not a bad win when you start the worst pitcher in baseball, and 90% of your lineup wouldn't be claimed off waivers for free!

Sox have scored some of the ugliest runs in baseball I've ever seen this year lol love it

doubling down; might have to go to the judges for an end of night ruling now. you may have taken the lead!

you're competing with caufield for most delusional post in the thread.