knicks94 wrote:Just like Mets fans are allowed to boo Juan Soto for not playing like the generational talent they thought they were getting, Yankee fans should be more than entitled to vent out their displeasure at Anthony Volpe for not being the best Yankee shortstop prospect since Derek Jeter. Enough of this "he's a great fielder" crap. Josh Donaldson was a gold glove defensive player while he was in pinstripes yet he was one of Cashman's worst acquisitions.Seriously, would you have traded Jeter back in the day for Rey Ordonez because the latter had a superior glove? Good defensive middle infielders are a dime a dozen, good hitting ones are not.
This is Volpe's 3rd season playing big league baseball, how much more time shall we give this guy a free pass? As a hitter you either have it or you don't. We are not talking about a pitching prospect here who needs at least 5 or 6 years of ML experience to develop into a top of the rotation ace. Why can guys like Ronald Acuna Jr, Francisco Lindor, Carlos Correa and Mookie Betts have such an immediate impact as soon as they get called up, but with Volpe the excue is "he's still young"? The guy is 24 years old, not some 19 year old kid out of high school, Jeter at 24 was already an established veteran.
Let's put an end to these excuses once and for all. And let us conclude that Anthony Volpe was overhyped and overrated by Cashman and the Yankees brass because they wanted to gaslight fans into believing that signing Correa or Machado was the wrong move at the time.
No bro, I think you need to relax a little. How can you expect any player to be the next Jeter? like come on bro, that is ridiculous pressure to put on any player. Jeter had over 3,400 hits !! those type of guys don't fall off from a tree, that is an elite exceptional talent and if you look around the MLB, what short stop is even close to a Jeter like player>? Lindor is a hall of fame talent but even he doesn't get on base or hit a batting average of .320 like Jeter consistently did. The Jeter comparisons for Volpe were just antsy Yankee fans that overrate all of their prospects and then starts hating their own players because they're not HOF talents.
Volpe is doing just fine, a gold glove short stop that is an average hitter with room for improvement, and he's playing very well this year. 31 RBIs and a 1.9 WAR which is like top 30 in the league. If he was making 50 million a season like Soto, then yes you have every right to boo and crap on him, but this kid is literally making minimum wage in the MLB level. You bring up Correa like he's been some elite player since he left the Astros, dude is always hurt.
If you know major league baseball like I do, then you'll know that some guys don't even put it together until they are in their 30s! Look at Weaver, he bounced around a bunch of teams until he came here and became elite. Look at Cruz, dude is like 34 years old and he's just now being taken serious. You know how many guys were scrubs and then out of nowhere had elite seasons at age 32 etc.. this is major league baseball, not the NFL or NBA, guys here have long careers and sometimes it takes longer for other players to get it right. You can't expect every prospect to become a major leaguer at 19-20 years old like Soto or Arod. Some guys don't become legit major leaguers until they are 30 years old Facts.
Volpe is far from the problem here, you just had unreasonable amount of expectations for him just like every Yankee fan does for their players. If he was getting 20 million plus a year then yes I understand, but dude is still a baby and he's been improving every season, we should be applauding him not crapping on him. If we have a chance to upgrade, then yes you do it but we can't just get every elite player we want when we want. Sometimes we have to give kids the room to grow, not every player coming out the minors is going to be elite and sometimes it takes some guys longer than others to develop. Watch guys start crapping on Dominguez soon if he doesn't hit 30 home runs and 100 RBIs, I guarantee it.
