After the Yankees rolled over and played dead on Saturday Aaron Boone came to the conclusion that maybe....just maybe...Volpe should get a breather now that the Yankees have Jose Caballero, read more HERE. It had crossed his mind previously but "Especially with Caballero, I gave him one the other day," Boone said. "Those can be in play here, but I wasn't going to do it with a lefty today."
It doesn't matter that Garrett Crochet is a lefty. What matters is Volpe has a .208 batting average and has been on the struggle bus all season who can't field and has no confidence at the plate. His 17 errors bode no confidence at all and in a big game against the Red Sox he shouldn't have been playing, it doesn't matter if it is a left or right handed pitcher. It's time to say screw the analytics and try something different because they aren't working.
So great, Baboonie benched him yesterday....but it's just not enough and it could be too little too late. Volpe's breather should be a reassignment down to Triple-A. He is NOT a major league shortstop. He can't field, we've seen it for three years now with no progression. His failure is due to the organization mismanaging his development. Volpe should never have been rushed to the majors. He needed at least one solid year at AAA, and then he may have developed correctly. If he didn't develop in that time frame, then he should have stayed there. The Yankees did a real disservice to him and he's paying the price. It never should have gotten to this point....but here we are.
And now we are stuck with him because the Yankees won't move on without him. It's clearly not working, but they are living in delusion land. At some point the Yankees need to stop selling optimism and face reality....permanent changes need to be made.
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