I had high hopes for Vaughn, even after 2021. I thought if they just let him focus on 1B defense, his bat would come around. It just never quite did. He’s about to turn 27. Maybe they should move him to DH so he doesn’t have to worry about defense at all?
Wish you could make abreu a bit goofier.
Hello fellow 1990 human.
Third overall pick… I will never be a fan of drafting 1b that high UNLESS it’s a Big Hurt type guy, and even if he lived up to his potential, AV was never that. But to be fair, the 2019 first round wasn’t great after Rutschman and Witt
Agree.
I had high hopes for him. Contact hitter with some power.
.300/25/90. Never got close.
The 1st baseman streak was nice while it lasted.
Still rock my Paulie and Abreu jersey’s sometimes.
I don’t blame him, I blame the organization for this type of thing. Failure to develop so often lands at the feet of the player when non-players want to assign blame, but I’ve watched the Sox more than I should and it’s tough to fault him for the poison he’s been subjected to.
Abreu was decent but he was no Thomas or Konerko. Nowhere near them
Frank is somehow underappreciated. Has more WAR than the rest of them combined.
The saddest part of Vaughn is knowing what he could’ve been had the organization’s terrible roster construction not forced him to the majors so soon that it stunted his development. I have no doubt, based on everything we saw on him in college, he’d be a borderline All-Star on a team like the Dodgers, Braves, or Yankees.
I wondered why they drafted a first baseman that high regardless of how good he was in college. From what I’ve read and seen about baseball scouting, first basemen in the majors are almost always third basemen or out fielders without range. First base was always where you stuck guys with power if they couldn’t work anywhere else. Just typical back asswards Sox logic. I think forcing him up early and then throwing him to the outfield hurt. George Wolkow is the future at first.
I still have hopes for Vaughn. His development got fucked by covid and playing out of position. But it kind of has to be this year or its not gonna happen.
Yeah it’s pretty tough when all the corner positions have zero power. 20 Homers a year with his home ballpark is a joke. He’ll be gone soon enough
Jake Burger could’ve kept the streak going but no…
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I had high hopes for Vaughn, even after 2021. I thought if they just let him focus on 1B defense, his bat would come around. It just never quite did. He’s about to turn 27. Maybe they should move him to DH so he doesn’t have to worry about defense at all?
Wish you could make abreu a bit goofier.
Hello fellow 1990 human.
Third overall pick… I will never be a fan of drafting 1b that high UNLESS it’s a Big Hurt type guy, and even if he lived up to his potential, AV was never that. But to be fair, the 2019 first round wasn’t great after Rutschman and Witt
Agree.
I had high hopes for him. Contact hitter with some power.
.300/25/90. Never got close.
The 1st baseman streak was nice while it lasted.
Still rock my Paulie and Abreu jersey’s sometimes.
I don’t blame him, I blame the organization for this type of thing. Failure to develop so often lands at the feet of the player when non-players want to assign blame, but I’ve watched the Sox more than I should and it’s tough to fault him for the poison he’s been subjected to.
Abreu was decent but he was no Thomas or Konerko. Nowhere near them
Frank is somehow underappreciated. Has more WAR than the rest of them combined.
The saddest part of Vaughn is knowing what he could’ve been had the organization’s terrible roster construction not forced him to the majors so soon that it stunted his development. I have no doubt, based on everything we saw on him in college, he’d be a borderline All-Star on a team like the Dodgers, Braves, or Yankees.
I wondered why they drafted a first baseman that high regardless of how good he was in college. From what I’ve read and seen about baseball scouting, first basemen in the majors are almost always third basemen or out fielders without range. First base was always where you stuck guys with power if they couldn’t work anywhere else. Just typical back asswards Sox logic. I think forcing him up early and then throwing him to the outfield hurt. George Wolkow is the future at first.
I still have hopes for Vaughn. His development got fucked by covid and playing out of position. But it kind of has to be this year or its not gonna happen.
Yeah it’s pretty tough when all the corner positions have zero power. 20 Homers a year with his home ballpark is a joke. He’ll be gone soon enough
Jake Burger could’ve kept the streak going but no…