00:00If you're going to call him up to me, I play him every day at second base.
00:04He's earned it.
00:05He went down there.
00:06He's performed at the minor league level.
00:07I don't think Caballero has done enough.
00:09What a great story that becomes, too.
00:10If he comes up, which he's up now, but if he never comes, let's just say,
00:14four or five days a week, the second baseman,
00:17and the playoff starting second baseman, which is obviously the plan here,
00:19for the moment, unless Jazz comes back healthy.
00:22Yeah, Jazz is seven to ten days, no baseball activities.
00:25So it's seven to ten days doing nothing.
00:27So you figure 15 days?
00:29At minimum, you're looking at two weeks.
00:31Today's September 10th, so two weeks from today is the 24th.
00:36Yeah.
00:36Season ends a week after that.
00:38Yeah.
00:38I mean, so, now look, I think Jazz gets the gig back.
00:41Jazz gets the gig back, unless Anthony Volpe comes up here
00:44and just tears the cover off the ball.
00:46What a great story that would be, too, though.
00:48It would be a great story.
00:49Part of the story is they can't seem to get rid of this kid either.
00:51Like, that's part of the story.
00:52Like, the baseball gods have insisted that Anthony Volpe be a part of this Yankee season.
01:00Like, that's just what it feels like.
01:01It just feels like he's destined to be part of this some way, somehow.
01:05And the only thing I'll say, and I said it yesterday on the last stop,
01:09because, you know, I incessantly talk Yankees on the last stop,
01:11after we did picks, after I was notified I was on until 7
01:14when I thought I was out here at 6.30.
01:15After all of that, I did talk some Anthony Volpe.
01:19But to me, he's gone down to the minors.
01:21He was just minor league player of the week.
01:24He's got a, you know, a 900 OPS in his time down there.
01:28He's been performing.
01:29He had 11 home runs.
01:30He's earned the right.
01:31Caballero has not earned the right.
01:33As much as we all hate Anthony Volpe,
01:35Caballero has not stepped up to the level where he deserves to play every single day.
01:39Anthony Volpe has been their guy for years.
01:42He's a top prospect.
01:43And as much as he's failed, he's been hot down in the minors.
01:46And that's what we asked him to do.
01:47That's it.
01:48Go down to the minors.
01:49Play second base.
01:50Play second base, which he's made one error in 20 games down there.
01:54Show us you can play second base.
01:56Gain some confidence.
01:57Work on your swing.
01:58Show us that you're worthy of being a major league baseball player.
02:02And we'll give you another opportunity.
02:03Now, I assume that would have been next year.
02:05But the injury...
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