{"id":820249,"date":"2026-10-03T03:12:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T03:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/820249\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T03:12:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T03:12:19","slug":"brewers-activate-andrew-vaughn-from-injured-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/820249\/","title":{"rendered":"Brewers Activate Andrew Vaughn From Injured List"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Brewers activated\u00a0Andrew Vaughn<\/a> from the 10-day injured list on Friday. That positions the corner infielder to be on the Division Series roster when Milwaukee announces their 26-man squad for their matchup with the Padres.<\/p>\n

Vaughn has been out since September 22 due to illness. He should essentially be full-go for the postseason. He\u2019ll provide a potent right-handed bat for Pat Murphy\u2019s group. Vaughn is coming off a .306\/.390\/.444 showing with six home runs across 331 plate appearances. The former third overall pick owns a .306\/.384\/.466 batting line in the equivalent of one full season since Milwaukee acquired him out of DFA limbo last June.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s production has come in a part-time capacity. That\u2019s not really any fault of his.\u00a0Jake Bauers<\/a> has simply been one of the best hitters in the National League. Bauers\u2019 glove is stretched in the corner outfield. Milwaukee could give Vaughn more time at designated hitter in place of Christian Yelich<\/a>, who hasn\u2019t been productive since April.<\/p>\n

The alternative is to live with a defensive downgrade somewhere \u2014 either by playing Bauers over Sal Frelick<\/a> in right field or Vaughn at third base instead of\u00a0Joey Ortiz<\/a>. Ortiz hit so well in the second half that he should be locked in at the hot corner as long as he\u2019s healthy, yet he\u2019s battling right knee and abdominal injuries that leave him at less than full strength.<\/p>\n

Vaughn should at least be in the Game 1 lineup. He has destroyed left-handed pitching and San Diego will run\u00a0Robbie Ray<\/a> against\u00a0Jacob Misiorowski<\/a> tomorrow night. The Padres will go back to staff ace Michael King<\/a>, a righty, to oppose\u00a0Logan Henderson<\/a> in Game 2. Neither team has announced pitching plans for when the series goes to San Diego on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

If the Brewers get past the Padres and the winner of the Braves\/Dodgers series, there remains an outside chance we see\u00a0Brandon Woodruff<\/a> this year. The veteran righty opted against season-ending shoulder surgery to keep a long shot possibility of an October return. Woodruff tells Adam McCalvy of MLB.com<\/a> that he threw from flat ground again on Friday and said he hopes to soon work off a mound.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know the clock is ticking against me,\u201d he told McCalvy. \u201cBut I\u2019m trying, that\u2019s for sure. Whether it\u2019s smart or not, I don\u2019t know. But if it means pitching in the World Series \u2026\u201d Injuries have kept Woodruff from seeing any postseason action since 2021. He had a 2.98 ERA with a 27% strikeout rate in nine regular season starts this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brewers activated\u00a0Andrew Vaughn from the 10-day injured list on Friday. That positions the corner infielder to be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[1749,5,127],"class_list":["post-820249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-andrew-vaughn","tag-baseball","tag-brandon-woodruff"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117374795350004711","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}