VOLPE CATCHING FIRE... WHERE'S THE HATERS NOW?

Of course, now that Anthony Volpe is hitting the crap out of the baseball, people like Keith McPherson are silent about "Volpe not a major leaguer" and "Volpe needing to be sent down."   That's how it works.  These podcasters or radio folks love to start crap but disappear when they're wrong. And trust me, they are wrong nearly all the time.

Volpe is a major leaguer.  Here's the difference; when you have a team surrounding this guy so he can tinker and work on things, you end up allowing guys like Volpe make adjustments and tweak surrounded by a big club that will help him work through it.  That is support. That is confidence building real time. Getting major league experience is sometimes the best experience.  Plus, the Yankees aren't about to suggest that they made a mistake... and so it had to be sink or swim in a very public forum.

Then came the silence and lack of effort by Dillon Lawson and a chicken parm adjustment session with our hero Austin Wells and suddenly the kid's figuring it out.

The New York Post writes:

"The Yankees’ rookie shortstop recorded his fourth and fifth straight multi-hit games during Saturday’s doubleheader split against the Cardinals, continuing to look more comfortable at the plate over the last few weeks.

After recording a pair of singles in Game 1, Volpe added an RBI triple and another single in the nightcap, both going the opposite way."

After 15 games Volpe is batting .373. 

But where's Keith McPherson? Here are his quotes from right around June 10th:

"The kid is overmatched. He’s not ready to be in the lineup every day at the MLB level...he’s a kid.... They did him a disservice. They tried to have him lead off, then they had him at seventh, then ninth. It’s tough to swim in those waters at 22 years old doing it for the first time."

McPherson's hiding. It's what analysts do. Drop a bomb, insult a major leaguer, and drop a mic.  Playing major league ball is a hard job, much harder than acting like you know everything.  So, when analysts are wrong... they don't apologize... they just disappear.

Now you can look at me at BYB and say "You do the same thing. You spew your opinion!" Yes, I do, but I don't disappear... I own it. Whatever it is.  I don't hide, I say my piece and will admit I'm wrong if I am, and continue to bang the drum if I'm right.  Many however do not.

But the bottom line is this... Volpe IS a major leaguer. He's a kid, but the Yankees are doing exactly what they should do for him... allow him to work it out surrounded by a talented major league club.  

Volpe will be fine. I've always said it.  Just let this play out. That's the bottom line.