Selfishly I would have much preferred a full, normal season for my own viewing and following purposes. I do however believe it was advantageous facing higher quality pitchers (overall) more often than he may have in the minors. So even though the alternate site action made the best of a bad situation, I feel like player progression and development was still able to be had there. I'm all for the Sox signing a DH to hold the fort down and buy Vaughn more time, but if he does get/win the job, I don't think he'll look like an overmatched little leaguer out there.