One of Saturday’s hot topics was the fact that Andrew Vaughn, the day after hitting a clutch, go-ahead home run in the ninth inning, was not the lineup for Game 2 of the Tigers-White Sox series.
Chicago was facing Casey Mize, a right-handed pitcher with plus stuff, and Gavin Sheets was slotted into the DH spot. One of the “problems” created by the AJ Pollock acquisition is trying to simultaneously find ABs for Pollock, Vaughn, Sheets, Eloy Jiménez, José Abreu, and even Adam Engel. However, this is a great problem to have, as it should put these players in a much better position to be successful — not only defensively, but in the batter’s box as well.