Szymborski on Andrew Vaughn's 2021

[Just Regular]

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/elegy-for-2021-recapping-the-al-central-team-by-team/

Vaughn did a respectable job picking up the outfield on the fly and even briefly cosplayed as a second baseman and a third baseman. But while he showed a solid eye at the plate, as in A-ball, not a lot of power came out of it; he struggled to a .613 OPS in the second half, and righties dominated him with breaking stuff all season. In the end, Vaughn would have been better served at Triple-A, which already would have been a big leap; the White Sox didn’t get anything from him they couldn’t have gotten from any other random fourth outfielder on a one-year deal. 

 

It was a little bit surprising to discover during playoffs he had basically lost most of a job to Gavin Sheets.   Cots already has its Major League Service as of Opening Day 2022 column populated, with Vaughn at the rarely seen 1.000 for players of his pedigree.   I will be curious to see next spring if his struggles translate to some AAA time.

[Frobby]

Shhhhh…this goes against the narrative that there’s never a downside to aggressively promoting a prospect.