Get Rid Of This Volpe Bum. He's Not Major League Ready

Can we please, for the love of baseball, stop pretending Anthony Volpe belongs as the Yankees’ everyday shortstop? The guy’s been dreadful. And yes, I said it. When we wrote CABALLERO IS NOT A HOUSEHOLD NAME, BUT EVEN BOONE KNOWS HE’S BETTER THAN VOLPE, it shot up the Google charts because—guess what?—the world knows it’s true.

Instead, the Yankees are wasting José Caballero, a scrappy, reliable player, by letting him rot as a utility guy while a wide-eyed high school project with zero confidence bumbles around short like it’s still JV tryouts. Fans see it. Hell, they screamed it last night—those boos weren’t polite Bronx murmurs, they were full-on “get this bum off the field” roars. Boone, of course, stood there clueless as always, staring into space like he’s trying to solve a Sudoku puzzle instead of managing a baseball team.

The final straw? Top of the ninth, one-run game. Jarren Duran’s on second, Ceddanne Rafaela hits a routine grounder to Volpe. What does our “franchise shortstop” do? Instead of tossing it to first like a functioning major leaguer, he forces a throw behind the runner to second. Everyone’s safe. Everyone’s shaking their heads. It goes down as a fielder’s choice, but let’s call it what it is—error number 16, most in the league. And then Boone shrugs it off like it’s fine. No, Boone, it’s not fine. It’s a mess.

And don’t even get me started on Volpe’s bat. Ten strikeouts in his last 25 at-bats. 

Fans booed him when Garrett Whitlock made him look like a Little Leaguer in the eighth. At this point, his at-bats are just automatic outs with some extra swing-and-miss flair.

Look, this isn’t personal—it’s reality. Volpe skipped college ball, got fast-tracked to the majors like someone greased the wheels, and here we are. How his hype balloon inflated this much out of high school is beyond me. He wasn’t big. He wasn’t a power hitter. Yet suddenly he’s the golden boy? Something doesn’t add up. Meanwhile, countless college stars with more accolades are still grinding for a chance and others didn’t even get picked in the draft this year. Weird doesn’t even begin to cover it.  It almost feels like a closed-door deal was struck long ago: no matter how bad he looks, no matter how many errors pile up, Anthony Volpe plays shortstop. End of story. Call me a conspiracy theorist if you want, but answer me this: how exactly did Anthony Volpe, of all people, get rushed to the majors and crowned the future of the Yankees? Until someone explains it, I’ll keep asking. Because something smells rotten here

And then we get reporting like Chris Kirschner’s gem: “The Yankees are all-in on Volpe at short. Caballero’s success in a small sample won’t change that.” Translation: we’re sticking with the wrong guy no matter how much evidence screams otherwise. Typical Yankees logic.

Fans aren’t dumb. We see the errors, the strikeouts, the deer-in-headlights look. We also see Caballero hustling and making plays whenever he gets a shot. But sure, let’s keep riding the Volpe fantasy while Boone gaslights us into thinking it’s all fine. It’s not fine. It’s maddening.

Bottom line: Volpe’s got to go. Not to the bench. Not to “figure things out.” Gone. Dump him and give Caballero the keys to shortstop. At least then, the Yankees might actually have a shot at clawing into the playoffs instead of watching the season implode with “High School Harry” botching grounders in crunch time.