Former Dodgers top prospect was the center of White Sox viral disaster on Tuesday night

Miguel Vargas has not been having a good time in Chicago. In their trade with the White Sox and Cardinals for Michael Kopech and Tommy Edman, the Dodgers only had to give up Vargas and three prospects (one a player to be named later). Kopech has been nearly perfect out of LA's bullpen and has already been credited with five holds, three wins, and three saves, and Edman has become a staple of the Dodgers' defense and broke a 6-6 tie against the Diamondbacks in Game 2 this past weekend to spur LA to a win.

Vargas has become an everyday player in Chicago, but that was just about the only pro for him. Upon the trade, it was immediately clear that he got the shortest end of the stick, and the depths of his misery as a Chicago White Sox took no time at all to be revealed. He was caught on camera in the Chicago dugout after a loss against the A's just a few days after the deadline, huddled into a corner and looking like he was trying to teleport out of his body.

On Tuesday, in the bottom of the second in a 4-0 game against the Orioles, Vargas was once again the center of viral attention when former White Sox Eloy Jiménez hit a fly ball to left field. Vargas, Andrew Benintendi, and Jacob Amaya all converged. Amaya did the smart thing and got out of there, but Vargas and Benintendi paid no mind to each other. Vargas collided with Benintendi's shoulder and went down hard, and the ball popped off of their gloves and stayed fair, allowing three runs to score and clearing the bases.

Kevin Brown, on the call for the Orioles, yelled, "Oh no! Oh my goodness, the White Sox have just gone full White Sox."

Miguel Vargas once again at the center of a viral White Sox moment with horribly botched play against the Orioles

Vargas had to be helped up off the field and exited with a black eye that was officially called a "right eye abrasion" and would need further tests. The White Sox went on to lose the game 9-0, which sounds about right.

In the 26 games Vargas has played as a White Sox, he's batting .122 with a .435 OPS. He wasn't exactly the best hitter with the Dodgers, but he still had a much more respectable .239 average and .735 OPS in LA. He had the chance to go to Chicago and easily be one of the better hitters in that lineup, but his hatred of where he's ended up seems to have gotten to his head. Or is there something in the water in Chicago?

It could definitely be some combination of the two. Players talk about how baseball is just as much a mental thing as anything else, and Vargas seems to be in a deep, dark rut with this team. It seems like the only thing that'll fix that is the White Sox getting better and starting to win, and that's not going to happen anytime soon.