White Sox first baseman Andrew Vaughn is a victim of perpetually high expectations.
As the third overall pick in the 2019 draft, Vaughn was immediately ticketed to be the White Sox’s first baseman/DH of the future. He enjoyed an illustrious college career at Cal that included a Golden Spikes Award, and 50 homers over 160 games. By 2020, a year after he was drafted, he was the No. 2 prospect in the White Sox organization, and a consensus Top 100 prospect in all of baseball. And in 2021, after scant experience in the minors muddled by the pandemic cancellation of the minors in 2020, Vaughn got his first call to join the big-league club.