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Glad to see they showed up ready to play and avoid the 4 game sweep
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We need hitters who aren't dumb enough to swing at change-ups below the strike zone when they've seen this guy's stuff pregame using the fancy new pitching machines teams have, and when they've already faced him a couple times today.
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They've even got Schriffen sounding defeated.
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Probably, but that's too long for a guy who's never really shown more than ~.750 OPS upside. He's a sunk cost at this point. I'd like to see more accountability.
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They should send Vaughn down. He's been struggling for over a month. He can figure his s%*# out in AAA.
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Welp, wasted my time tuning in when I saw things happening at the end.
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Witt basically winning this one single handedly
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Vaughn ruins everything
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Pathetic man
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What did Meidroth do?
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He hits the ball hard when he swings at pitches he can do damage on. Some of them are outside of the strike zone (like the rocket RBI single up the middle yesterday). I'm totally fine with him being a free swinger, but only on pitches he can hit hard. The problem with being the worst in the league at swinging at pitches out of the zone is the vast majority of those it's not possible to hit hard unless your Vlad Guerrero Sr. Sosa's ceiling will probably be the mid .600s OPS guy he is now unless he makes this change, and I very much doubt he can. I hope he makes me look like a big fat idiot by the end of the year, though.
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He also doesn't barrel enough pitches or hit them hard (32%/29%), which is directly attributable to his chase rate. xwOBA is also below average at 41%. I would love to be wrong, but "worst in the league at chasing pitches" is just not a workable long-term profile if he can't make any changes. Second division utility infielder is his current ceiling.
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I think the idea taking him so high was he was almost MLB ready. The bat was supposed to be his carrying tool. This was also when the window was opening, so getting someone to play 1B/DH after Abreu to keep the window going was what they were going for. Unfortunately it looks like a big scouting miss. I don't know if any of the motivation or stubbornness issues we've seen hinted at were identifiable from his Cal coaches and teammates, but I'd bet they were. Maybe player dev was also an issue with Vaughn, but if what we've heard is true, no amount of player dev was ever going to help him. The big mistake now is not sending him down to AAA. He needs a wake up call, and Elko is worth bringing up, even if just for a bit while Vaughn shows he can actually listen and make the changes he needs to make.
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I brought up the chase rate in another thread - that's why I'm out on Lenyn. There are 160-something qualified hitters in MLB right now, meaning Lenyn is the worst/second worst at chasing out of the zone. That severely limits his ceiling. It's not like this year is an outlier, either. His previous qualified chase rate wasn't any better - 6%. The Sox have also brought in coaches and players to try to make selectiveness part of the organizational philosophy, and we've seen other players make adjustments, but not Lenyn. He just doesn't fit what the Sox want to do, and he doesn't seem to want to/be able to change. I'd expect that he won't be a major part of this team past this season.
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Per baseball savant, he also doesn’t have a good launch angle when he barrels the ball very often, so it ends up on the ground way too much.
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He hits too many balls on the ground to take advantage of how consistently hard he hits the ball.
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Must be hard to square up Brown’s two seamer. Lot of weak contact.
