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Hell ya Smith.

this pitcher is nasty, wtf.

Man, had a decent pitch to hit there.

damn nasty changeup.

Cubs fan and a Sox fan walk into a bathroom at Wrigley during the x-town series, both boys and fathers do their business and on the way out the cubs dad says "at wrigley we teach our boys to wash their hands after they pee". Without missing a beat the Sox dad says "at Comiskey we teach our sons not to piss on their hands".

Vaughn will bat 5th until the day I die I guess.

I was slightly negative on the jerseys before seeing the hats and finished product on the players, now I'm slightly positive. I agree the hat will be a big seller, it just has a nice design to it that's unique and nostalgia tinted at the same time.

One data point: highest EV of his career was 115.1 mph and came in his rookie year. I mean just looking at Vaughn he's never put the work in on his body needed. He's the same 5-10 175 he was as a rookie. Vargus put the time in and look how thick he is now, Vaughn not so much.

People should realize a 220/300/400 line as a 3B is now basically a 3 WAR player with solid defense.

It's a problem but he also has one of the best contact rates in MLB so it's not like he's a terrible profile overall. Even with his league worst chase rate he's got a league average xwOBA. I don't think there is any "right" way to find value in MLB, there are a lot of wrong ways but at the end of the day there are dozens of ways to provide value and if he's "just" a 270/290/380 hitter well he's just a utility guy, but if he can improve, and he's 25 so there's some time, he's a decent regular.

Errors will happen but both statcast and fangraphs like his range. I'll take someone with range that needs work in the offseason over someone that can't get to balls and never has a chance to make an error.

Hanging onto to positive fWAR at .1. His wxOBA is .320 so according to that metric he's been a bit unlucky. FG thinks he's about a league average defender at 2B, which is something he can hang his hat on as a utility player or borderline starter. Looking at his statcast data I see an average MLB athlete with good contact skills that still needs to mature as a hitter, especially late in counts. He has enough contact skills where pitchers won't necessarily just be throwing him a get me over at any point in the count. He's worst 1 percentile in chase, if he can just get that to like bottom 1/3 and up his walk rate he'll raise his floor quite a bit.

it appears we sent cash out. twice in two weeks no?

Is he on the 40 man? Not sure why we need to clutter that more if so, but whatever.

As I just said in the other thread Vaughn hasn't put any work into his body. You can be short but you can also be super strong and explosive at any size and he has the same body he came in with as a rookie. It just doesn't make any sense to keep him around as some sort of charity case from a former 3rd overall pick.

I know you're just trolling but how is he going to learn to "lift and pull" better when we have almost 5 full years of data that says otherwise? Look at that hitch in his swing, it's worse than when he was a rookie. He hasn't matured physically or mentally as a hitter and he's got such a high bar to clear as a 1B/DH RHB that is bottom 1/5 on the bases an defensively, he'll never get there. Time to move on. Who even cares if goes on to have a little Burger like flash? We need to find out guys who will be here on the next (hopefully) good Sox team in 2-4 years, it sure ain't going to be Vaughn.

If JR would offer him like a 4 year 85 million extension I'd be more than open to keeping him. But you know we'll just lose him for nothing in two years anyways. That's sadly is where we are at.

Be interesting what they do if Beni needs a couple weeks for that hammy. You'd think Elko would have to be up here one way or another but who knows.

Nice games from Sosa, Quero, Robert and Meidroth and somehow Vasil went 2.1 of shut out ball. Helped by a slick double play started by Vargus. Quero and Meidroth have done wonders for keeping the offense moving and providing chances for runs. Both rocking an OBP of over .400 since coming up. That's probably the only time that's happened in a 100 or so PA sample in a long, long time. This team might not be historically awful anymore and is just plain old bad. We'll take it, if so.

what a play by vargas man. get vaughn off this fucking team please.

that works tho. I'm shocked we came back to tie it up.

lol ball should have been in teh bleachers.

speaking of mistakes...wrong thread

Ump sucks and so does our bullpen.

Come on get this last fucking out. Smart change by Venable.