Still Want The Volpe Kid? Move Him To Second

Let me state for the record that I don’t want Volpe on the Yankees at all.  But for the sake of compromise, Boone will never part with his boy toy, so keep him in the Bronx and make him play second at least? Why? Cause Jazz sucks. Have you noticed?

Remember when our second baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr. announced he was gonna be a “50/50 guy”? You know… casually aiming for a club so exclusive that only Shohei Ohtani has ever actually gotten through the velvet rope.

After going 31 homers and 31 steals in 2025, Jazz rolled into his contract year talking like baseball’s version of a motivational poster. “Why not shoot for the stars and land on the moon?”

Well… the rocket appears to have exploded on the launchpad.

First, it was “too cold” in the spring. Then the bat disappeared entirely. And now? We’re 43 games into 2026 and Jazz is hitting .203 with 4 home runs and an OPS that looks like a backup catcher’s blood pressure reading. The underlying numbers somehow look worse. Weak contact, low hard-hit rate, disappearing barrels — the whole thing has turned into a masterclass in warning-track sadness.

Which brings us to the Yankees’ next ongoing science experiment: Anthony Volpe.

The Yankees are once again trying to convince the public that Volpe is a shortstop, despite half the baseball world watching him range around the infield like a guy searching for his car keys in a supermarket parking lot.

And look — if the Yankees absolutely insist on keeping him in the lineup because Aaron Boone treats him like a Make-A-Wish success story, then Volpe better start taking ground balls at second base immediately. Because the clock is ticking.

If Jazz keeps hitting like this, the Yankees are eventually going to have to make a decision by the trade deadline. Bench him? Move him? Trade him? Something has to give. And if that happens, second base suddenly becomes Volpe’s last realistic lifeboat.

Scouts have quietly said for years that Volpe’s arm fits better at second anyway. The problem is, moving him across the bag doesn’t magically fix the bat. Hitting around the Mendoza Line isn’t exactly a “position-specific issue.”

But maybe — maybe — getting him out of shortstop could help his confidence. Because right now the Yankees have managed to combine a struggling second baseman with a shortstop who probably shouldn’t be a shortstop, and somehow the solution keeps being: “Just give it another month.”

At this rate, Yankee Stadium is gonna need a support group for middle infielders.  We all hoped this season would be different didn’t we? When Cashman declared this was a top caliber team, remember? Well… it’s not… it’s more of the same, and add in the chaos.

Jeez.

Source: http://bleedingyankeeblue.blogspot.com/2026/05/still-want-kid-volpe-move-him-to-second.html