00:00Listen, I'm a Volpe fan. I really am, but I think there's got to be some consideration or thought or talking about him possibly going back down, just like they did with Alvarez with the Mets.
00:10He's going to be a very good player for years to come, but in the meantime, his confidence, I think, for me is at an all-time low.
00:15I would look for a veteran shortstop available, somebody that can catch the ball.
00:19Really?
00:20Yeah, I would just do that temporarily.
00:22Send him down, let him get straightened out a bit. He's going to come back very soon.
00:26Send Volpe down?
00:27Yeah, sure. And let him... Alvarez did it with the Mets, and he came back, and he was a different... So far, he's been a different player.
00:34A younger guy, though, right? I'm just... I'm a little stunned. You think it's that... It calls for that drastic action.
00:40From what I'm seeing, I mean, there's... I've seen him make a lot of mistakes that he shouldn't be making, and I think just to go clean it up, I...
00:47The guy looks like he needs to reset a little bit mentally as much as anything for me.
00:50Slow the game down, get your fundamentals back together, breathe again, and in the meantime, just get somebody to catch the ball.
00:57This guy then goes and becomes a utility player on the team. I think they'll be better off for it.
01:01Okay. Do you risk kind of losing him?
01:05Damaging his ego a little bit by sending him down at this point in his career?
01:09No, I've... Listen, I've been involved with this before. I could go back in time with the Angels with Jack Cowell and Devon White.
01:15Both were Major League players sent back down, or both were very good players.
01:18I think we're really sensitive. It's just a sign of the times right now that we get overly sensitive about doing the right thing,
01:23because you're worried about, you know, the social media impact or hurting a guy's feelings.
01:28Sometimes you've got to be a little bit tougher with it.
01:30I thought Alvarez did a great job going back down, said all the right things, came back up, looks like a different cat right now.
01:36But this is a young player, and it's not... They're not always...
01:40Even after a good first year or first one and a half years, whatever, sometimes the reset is necessary.
01:47That's... I mean, when you go down to one year to catch a regular infield routine ground ball, that's a concern to me.
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