00:00I don't think they'll get there this year, but I'll tell you that it's not out of the question
00:05that George Lombard is the shortstop on August 1st. Again, the problem with that is I talked to
00:11three scouts who watch Lombard all the time, and I asked them in the last week, do you think he
00:17could come up and help the team? And two out of the three, veteran guys, all three guys said,
00:22just leave him down there and let him have the season. The third guy said, I would make him the
00:27shortstop. And so I think that they're going to have a moment like Lombard over, say, the last
00:33three or four weeks has really seemed to catch on at AAA. The Yankees, I think, can know this.
00:37Defense and base running, they have no doubt about George Lombard. They wonder if he'll be
00:44competitive right now as a hitter or that he needs that seasoning. He's only 20-21. He needs more
00:51AAA seasoning to do it. The more and more I watch Volpe and Caballero try to do this,
00:58I'm not sure you're going to win a championship with either Caballero or Volpe playing shortstop.
01:04Too much inconsistency in every way at too important of a position.
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