Christian

Is that playing well?

Does it need to be more than that?

A guy's hitting 280, closer to an 800 OPS?

what's the definition of him playing well, number one?

We need to know that, okay?

Because to me, I have a hard time believing that Jose Caballero, even hitting 940, is going to keep Anthony Volpe from taking shortstop back when he is healthy.

Number two, there is a report out there that if Volpe spends, because of the rehab assignment and his accrued service time, if he spends like 20 days in AAA, the Yankees will get another year of service time.

Now, the Yankees haven't cared about manipulating Anthony Volpe's service time at all throughout the course of his tenure here.

They've ran him out there every friggin' day.

So why do they care now?

That's another point.

To me, why would they care now about manipulating his service time?

If they've invested so much into him being the franchise shortstop, why now?

Unless they're finally going to be ready to admit that this has been a failure thus far.

Also, Pete, the point of him, the pressure, the pressure is going to be taken off of Anthony Volpe.

I think a healthy Anthony Volpe starting the season in AAA,

only adds more pressure to him.

Because now he has to come up right away and prove this.

And now he's had this elephant sitting on his shoulder for three weeks or a month or whatever it is that the Yankees have decided that he's not good enough to take his job back healthy.

And now...