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Fantastic work – thank you! Will be great to see how this compares with his actual results at the end of the season. (Hopefully that hot streak starts and never ends.)

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Because Substack is designed for the email newsletter, there is always a limit on the article's length after all the embedded tweets and pictures. I had originally wanted to make a couple of extra points but ran out of space. Still, since his overall MLB performance is already a small data set, any breakdown of that would be on even smaller sample sizes.

With the more advanced analytical focus and the space constriction, I unintentionally left out the following less useful but more traditional note of how Vaughn has scored 18 runs (often pulled for a pinch-runner/defensive replacement when he reaches in the 6th/7th inning) and drove in only 12 guys (RBIs) due to his place. in the White Sox lineup and how Yermin Mercedes can't score from first on a double.

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Thanks, Ruey. Good stuff. That bomb off Chapman was a seed.

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