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Vaughn will K a lot more than Mercedes. Guys who can make contact are pretty valuable in situations like last night when both Robert and Vaughn K'd with men on 2nd and 3rd with no outs. Mercedes had just got the last of his 3 hits against Cobb, a double with 2 strikes on him . At least 4 of his 8 consecutive hits he had 2 strikes on him.

In 1983 the Winny Ugly White Sox got swept by the Rangers to open the season and went on to win 99 games and win the West Division by 20 games. I'll happily take Winning Ugly Part Deux.

Too bad Yerminator is his nickname and a good one too . You give Maui a Yermin haircut and it is Yermin . Yermin is the demi-god Maui .

Everyone keeps telling me how soccer is very popular now in the US but not one soccer reference when the ball went off Robert's head.

Because he was such a good hitter he needed to be in a higher level and if catcher wasn't going to be it then 1st base !

Standing O in my head for Yermie !

On the other hand Madrigal is looking better just by looking at Leury AB.

LOL you are both still in line behind me.

You got to be fucking shitting me !!!!!!!!!

People were getting a bit out of control on Vaughn expectations for this year. He may still be good this year ( it's only a rough start so far ) but he also might see some Charlotte time.

Maybe Mercedes is Buddha.

Might be more after some Intentional Walks.

Feel good it was only 2 runs. Defense like that can result in bigger crooked numbers.

I'm not the final word on what's final but it sprang up in the game thread last night more than a few times. Also saw it used in a Reddit thread after the game.

The Yerminator has been floating around here for 2 years.

Mercedes going 5-5 in his first start is actually the 1st time it has ever been done in the Modern Era.

They'll slider him non stop like they do Robert if he gets to face righties often. Yermin will take his walks. He has better plate discipline than Robert. Plus he's had plenty of AB's the last 2 ST. Not enough time in the digital age to have made a little note book on him already ?

If you want what's best for the team the only way to make up for the Eloy loss is to have him in LF and Yermin and Collins get DH AB's. Hopefully in the 5/6 months Eloy is gone they can muster up a decent OBP between them all and around 10+ HR's.

All this discussion about Mercedes and never once did anyone bring up how bad of a catcher he was. I say "was" because I think he can play catcher now just maybe not full time. He also had no pedigree . No high draft choice. When everyone looks at you as a DH only that makes the path to the big leagues much much harder. Of course if you only have one good skill hitting is the one that can get you to the bigs most most guys do not come up as DH only players. I've had discussions with our wonderful Future Sox writers on him about why he was never a top 30 prospect in the Sox system even though I knew the answer why. I just wanted to put it in their heads that he deserved some consideration. I just got reasons that I'd mildly argue with. "he didn't show much power til AAA and they had a juiced ball, he is a terrible catcher, he is older than everyone at that level, he can't hit a curve ". Those are all the reasons I got from follow Soxtalk member over and over. Now one day does not a career make so I'm happy he came through in a big way in his 1st real chance.

So damn happy for Yermin. If he never goes 5-5 the rest of his career he'll always have today. I've been talking about him since I asked in a Future Sox thread who he was when he was in A+ ball. I've probably made 100 or more posts supporting him. I always wanted to see him in the top 30 Future Sox prospects but never did. I think MLB Pipeline had him in there for this year.

Well hell. Wasn't one when I checked but took a few minutes to make this and bmags beat me to it.

12-8 1st win of season over the Angels. Abreu granny ! Kopech studly ! Yermin fucking Mercedes 5 for 5 !! 4 singles , a double and 4 RBI in his 1st start ever in MLB at DH !

This ballgame is OVA !

Closer non closer situation but huge lead no worries !