They're not calling up after they've gone, call it fools, gold or whatever you want, 11 and 4 in their last 15 games. They're not going to pull the trigger on both Spencer Jones and Lombard now as September starts. They're not going to do that. So I honestly, if you want to have a real plan, it's pick one or the other. Then they have to figure out the 40-man roster stuff with Lombard too, which a whole other thing.

It's not going to happen.

What needs to happen now is we're overthinking this.

Lombard may very well be the shortstop of the future.

He may bomb out like Volpe.

They traded for Jose Caballero, who could play shortstop, is not a sieve there, and every time he's on base is a legitimate threat to steal a base.

He needs to play.

That's it.

Pause the George Lombard stuff.

You're way overthinking it otherwise.

That's it.

And also, they spent the entire year essentially.

Okay, Paraza was here.

With Volpey playing every day at short and not giving a damn about a backup shortstop,

I'm fine sending Anthony Volpe down if you want to do that and having Kabayr be the primary shortstop Rosario there to play in a pinch too.

I don't think sending Volpe down means you also have to call up Lombard.

I have never seen an athlete in this town like Anthony Volpe that has been coddled,

the excuse making from press secretary Boone after the games.

I mean, there's no reason.

Oh, you haven't?

No.

Dude, Anthony Volpey is Daniel Jones.

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