[Mitch Ransdell is away from the sketch pad this week, so we are re-running his art for Vaughn’s POTW win last March, with a guest essay to explain his week.]
You really have to feel for Andrew Vaughn.
The No. 3 overall pick just three years ago made an extraordinary leap from High-A to the majors — oh, with a year completely away from competitive games thanks to a global pandemic — in 2021, and was rewarded with chaos.
The White Sox so desperately needed his Golden Spikes (2018) bat in the lineup that upon Eloy Jiménez’s late-Cactus League injury, the club ran Vaughn out to replace him in left field.