bacon likes a lox breakfast sandwich, point in his favor. I can def see if you're based in Chicago seeing the PNW trip as a little bit of magic. It is a crazy beautiful place in late summer.
Martin reminds me of Gavin Floyd. he doesn't really know where any of his pitches are going, that's a 50/50 proposition but on the right night can work. crazy movement, little control.
Venable just seems like a laid back dude but can also tell it how it needs to be said. His tactics are mediocre but I can see being a young player and enjoying playing for him. Latin and US guys both.
If Vaughn gets his career together its an indictment of both him and Chicago imo. But I don't think he's anything more than a 1.5 WAR player next year, and he'll be deep into arb so barely even worth it best case.
They def told him to sell out for pull power and if he runs into one the other way so be it. It's working clearly. Look at that huge load mechanism tho. That will get figured out.
It's probably the type of change he only would have embraced after being in AAA and getting traded for a fellow DFA candidate. I was heckling him last year telling him he needed to pull the ball more. Sheets told me I should be a hitting coach with a sarcastic tone. Maybe he was right.