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I going to look at the blue sky scenario. Lets say Mercedes continues to hit and becomes Harold Baines incarnate, Eaton performs at above average levels, Vaughn continues to prove he can handle a corner & Eloy and Robert come back mid/late August and perform while being healthy. I would be lead to believe the following Hahn and co would be well suited to move Eaton and his 8M option to a team like the giants or blue jays in the offseason to fully clear the way and give Vaughn every opportunity to stay in the outfield, while keeping Eloy in LF till Abreu retires and Yermin or Eloy move to 1B/DH respectively and in this blue sky scenario Cespedes or Colas come up and take over LF. a '22 healthy line up looking like this could very well be the best in the show. Anderson - SS Robert - CF Moncada# - 3B Abreu - 1B Jimenez - LF Mercedes - DH Vaughn - RF Grandal# - C Madrigal - 2B Collins* - C/1B/DH Mendick - UT FA (someone like Brad Miller*) - UT Engel - OF Giolito Keuchel* Cease Kopech Rodon* or Lynn or both if they accept their QOs Hendriks Bummer* Heuer Ruiz Crochet* (in a near identical role to Kopech this season) Foster Fry*/Cordero/Burdi Marshall/Cordero/Burdi

Agreed, anything from Vaughn should be considered a bonus and the fact that he looks like he belongs both in the batters box and the outfield tells me everything i need to know. The home runs will come, his approach has been great. He is walking at a 12% clip while never playing above A+ mlb average right now is 8.93% and he is slightly below mlb average k rate 24.13 at 24.10%. Here is a comp for Vaughn if he stays in the outfield Tim Salmon with better defense.

Vaughn, hes got the arm for 3B and he looks above average in the outfield.

Agreed when Eloy and Robert come back would love to see Anderson - SS Robert - CF Moncada# - 3B Abreu - 1B Jimenez - LF Mercedes - DH Vaughn - RF Grandal# - C Madrigal - 2B with Engel & Leury out there as defensive replacements for Eloy

Sox Win! Ruiz should be given a longer leash and the converse of that is true for Foster

nice slap hit for Leury. Will TLR double steal?

Jose heating up

Should give Cease 3 punchies for that last AB...jesus Segal has beeing giving Maeda everything and Dylan nothing....

it wasn't pretty but it'll work.

Yazzz! atoned!

Yaz...why would you call that?!

Dylan with a 1-2-3 2K looking really good hitting 97mph and breaking out an uncle charlie

Dog posting?! why not! his name is Cobh hes a Goberian (Golden Retriever and Siberian Husky)

a right handed JD Drew

Vaughn is fine, he has shown he can be major league average to slightly above in LF at a new position he had never played going into this year, all the while putting up this line after his first 3 career games .300/.377/.417 even taking into account his first three games he is positive across all aspects of the game including base running and has a 108wRC+. The home runs will come.

Yermin has been abandoning his 2 strike approach in certain situations.

The advanced stats and eye test are showing Andrew to be an above average left fielder, his k% has come down to a respectable level and he is above average in all facets of the game including base running. Let him off the leash and give him those ABs.

WTF 20 seconds passed they can't review that to begin with and Perez pushed hamilton off the bag

Go get Bryan Reynolds from the pirates, works out long term is 26 and has no value for their window.

how is that not a swing? and how is he not struck out as it didn't hit the bat?!

Can cease have figured it out!??! that would be amazing

Or maybe, just stay with me here. Boston caught a tell and TLR doesn't know how to manage a modern staff....really could be either.

We found Tony's burner

But hes a hall of fame baseball person, legit!

One more thing with regards to La Russa and Mercedes; this is the same man that thought Jose Canseco hanging out with Madonna was a good enough excuse for not being on time and let him in the line up that day, but Mercedes being late? nah lets keep Jake Lamb in with the bases jucied, another smooth brain play by our Hall of Famer Baseball Person; because he legit.