Alex Rodriguez Throws Shade At Yankees For Handling Of Anthony Volpe

Key Highlights

• Volpe returned to the lineup after a little while.
• He even hit a random home run off of Boston Red Sox ace Garrett Crochet in Game 1 of the ALWC (and went on to be arguably the Yankees’ best player in the three-game series). At the end of the day, though, Volpe’s inconsistent production has trended more towards famine than feast, and Yankees observers are sick of the club continuing to back Anthony despite his long-tenured struggles. Former Yankee Alex Rodriguez, now an analyst, was the most recent voice to criticize the Volpe situation.
• Interestingly, though, A-Rod seemed to blame the Yankees organization as much as Volpe himself.“(Volpe) is an incredible young man with great family, and the organization has fallen in love with him,” Rodriguez said this week while appearing as a guest on WFAN radio.
• “But at some point, the numbers don’t lie, right?“You have 167 strikeouts (in your rookie year), 156 and 150 (in the next two), and here’s a young man that, the biggest way he can impact winning is with his number one tool: his legs.
• But (they’ve) taken his legs away.