Christian

It was just more like theatrics more than anything to me.

Oh, look, we'll bench him.

But here, the job's back almost immediately.

When you had a... All you heard, oh, we couldn't bench him because we had a viable option.

You had a viable option.

You benched him for like two days and gave him the job right back.

So, Anthony Volpe's a big...

storyline in 2026 he is it's just going to be that way and yeah i'm going to try not to lose my mind over it like we lost our mind on this show numerous times over anthony volpe but it's just a fact of the matter is that he's going to be a huge storyline this year he's healthy where is he

Because if he goes to AAA healthy, that's a huge storyline right there.

That the Yankees are finally admitting that they failed here.

And to me, it's more about the failure of Anthony Volpe and whether or not they trust him than anything Jose Caballero is doing.

That's number one.

Number two, if he's healthy on day one, the storyline is, is he finally going to prove that he's the franchise shortstop?

And what is the line for Anthony Volpe to prove that he's the franchise shortstop?

Because he's never had an OPS over 690 in his major league career.

Never.

they've always had an excuse for why, but it's three years of it.

You can't have an excuse for all three years.

You can't say, well, year one he was a rookie when he got outperformed by other rookies.

Well, you can't say year two when he actually regressed.