June 18, 2025Jun 18 12 minutes ago, flavum said: Vaughn has grounded out twice tonight. We all need a laugh. Predictable
June 19, 2025Jun 19 So are we keeping track for we were right or big mistake. BTW I don't miss Sheets either
June 19, 2025Jun 19 "The Brewers acquired him in exchange for pitcher Aaron Civale, signaling a strategic move to potentially revitalize his career. Vaughn, a former first-round pick, has struggled with consistency this season, but the Brewers see potential in his hard-hit metrics and hope to help him regain his form." says AI Vaughn has never had a “great” or even “very good” season. He has, however, been consistently average since reaching the majors back in 2021. His OPS+ has bounced between 91 and 111 every season of his career save for this one. He’s hit at least 15 home runs every season of his career except for this one. Vaughn hadn’t ever been 49 OPS+ bad before this year, and probably won’t be that bad going forward. This is supported by the fact that Vaughn has objectively been really unlucky this season. His expected batting average is .249, with an expected slugging percentage of .461. On May 1, a couple of weeks before being sent down to Triple-A, Rotowire ranked him as the second-most unlucky hitter in all of baseball. Home runs aren’t everything, but Vaughn’s worst home run total in his career has been 15. That’s more home runs than Ernesto Martinez Jr. has ever hit in a season in the minors. Vaughn was a 21-year-old college junior when drafted. The White Sox looked at that profile and (incorrectly) assumed he’d be ready for the bigs instead of looking at his stats. On top of that, Chicago put Vaughn — a slow, defensively mediocre first baseman — in the outfield to start his career. That’s not how you develop a No. 3 overall pick, even one who was seen as “high floor” at the time. When you look at Vaughn as someone whose development was botched, the trade starts to make more sense. Vaughn is a former Golden Spikes Award winner as the best player in college baseball. He was a third overall pick. He has talent, talent that — per his Baseball Savant page — is still translating to the big leagues. Vaughn is around the 80th percentile in hard-hit rate, barrel rate, and exit velocity this year. That’s something to work with. Vaughn was already committed to play at Cal, and watching him, it was obvious he’d be a high draft pick someday. I was lucky enough to play with other future major league draft picks, but Vaughn was freakishly talented — the most well-rounded, natural hitter I’ve ever seen at the youth level. I can’t speak to his work ethic. However, if what Tyler Osik says is true, it makes sense to me. Vaughn, from the little I saw, was certainly talented enough to sleepwalk into .250 and 15 home runs. https://www.brewcrewball.com/2025/6/14/24448663/the-case-for-andrew-vaughn-brewers-commentary-first-base-discussion-analysis Last three paragraphs have nice nifty little summary as well.
June 20, 2025Jun 20 On 6/13/2025 at 12:47 PM, Dick Allen said: Is Hostetler still employed by the White Sox? I remember this question being asked, and was looking up the Sox front office for something else, but there might be some other interesting names listed on here.
June 21, 2025Jun 21 Gavin Sheets is a fan fave in San Diego. Hitterish with a good organization. The fans apparently chant "Holy Sheets" when he comes up to the box. Good for Gavin.
June 21, 2025Jun 21 13 hours ago, greg775 said: Gavin Sheets is a fan fave in San Diego. Hitterish with a good organization. The fans apparently chant "Holy Sheets" when he comes up to the box. Good for Gavin. No doubt he would be starting almost every day here.
June 21, 2025Jun 21 16 minutes ago, oldsox said: No doubt he would be starting almost every day here. In CF.
July 5, 2025Jul 5 10 minutes ago, Buehrle>Wood said: Might be Vaughn time in Milawaukee Wild Thing?
July 7, 2025Jul 7 Author Andrew Vaughn was called up to MLB by the Milwaukee Brewers to fill the spot left by Rhys Hoskins, who was placed on the injured list, according to sources. Vaughn, 27, was hitting .189 with 5 home runs in 48 games for the White Sox to start the 2025 season. — Francys Romero (@francysromeroFR) July 6, 2025
July 7, 2025Jul 7 He's 27. Time to start raking. Wish him well. Not his fault he was with a losing organization.
July 7, 2025Jul 7 37 minutes ago, greg775 said: He's 27. Time to start raking. Wish him well. Not his fault he was with a losing organization. Although I wish him well as I would take no pleasure seeing him fail, he was partially at 'fault' for the fact that the Sox were a losing team by underperforming consistently. Yes the organisation around him stunk and his development wasn't helped by the way he was bounced around positions etc but the bottom line is his bat didn't produce. Edited July 7, 2025Jul 7 by Chimpton
July 7, 2025Jul 7 3 hours ago, Chimpton said: Although I wish him well as I would take no pleasure seeing him fail, he was partially at 'fault' for the fact that the Sox were a losing team by underperforming consistently. Yes the organisation around him stunk and his development wasn't helped by the way he was bounced around positions etc but the bottom line is his bat didn't produce. I wish him well also, I kept waiting for him to bust out and have a monster season but instead he regressed every year. Edited July 7, 2025Jul 7 by The Mighty Mite
July 7, 2025Jul 7 4 hours ago, greg775 said: He's 27. Time to start raking. Wish him well. Not his fault he was with a losing organization. He likely won't be much better than he was with the Sox. You can't blame someone's poor performance only on the fact that he played for a bad team.
July 7, 2025Jul 7 6 hours ago, chitownsportsfan said: honestly i hope he sucks. nothing personal, I just don't like him. Lol isn’t that the definition of personal?
July 7, 2025Jul 7 37 minutes ago, PaleAleSox said: How many of you are making the trip up to Milwaukee today to see him? About the same amount of fans who bought tickets to see The Tim Elko Experience.
July 7, 2025Jul 7 8 minutes ago, Tony said: About the same amount of fans who bought tickets to see The Tim Elko Experience. I read somewhere that Elko will be traded to a front line competitor of his choice, because the Sox clearly don’t have him in their plans
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