McMonigle: Yankees Shortstop Situation Defies Common Sense | The Carton Show with Chris McMonigle
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🗓️ 7 July 2026
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Chris McMonigle reacts to the New York Yankees' recent performance and the growing debate over the starting shortstop position. He critiques Aaron Boone's 'day-to-day' approach with Jose Caballero and Anthony Volpe, while also highlighting a dominant outing from the pitching staff. The discussion on The Carton Show explores the tension between team analytics and on-field results during a pivotal stretch of the season.
01:00 - McMonigle Breaks Down Yankees Victory
03:43 - Jose Caballero Shortstop Debate
07:31 - Aaron Boone's Management Critique
12:53 - Analyzing Anthony Volpe's Struggles
17:31 - Previewing Upcoming Sports News
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Cardin Show. McMonicle here with your riding solo. Craig's out all week. We told you that yesterday. You know it. And I got you until 6 o'clock. Yankee pregame 888-808-101-9. And we will start there. We'll get to USA, kind of embarrassing themselves last night. We'll get to all the different things on this busy Tuesday afternoon. But yes, we have to start with where we left |
| 0:22.4 | off yesterday, the Yankees and that huge game last night. And that's what it was. We talked about |
| 0:28.2 | it all day leading into the game. That was a massive game coming off one and nine in the last |
| 0:32.5 | 10, losing two out of three to Minnesota, going into a building and against the team they haven't |
| 0:37.0 | beaten this year in a building they don't play well in for the last handful of years. |
| 0:40.4 | And what we saw last night was Cam Schlittler make that jump, right? |
| 0:46.2 | We've already seen it in the postseason, but he's coming off two bad starts. |
| 0:50.4 | And they needed him in this game. |
| 0:52.1 | And the performance he gave you, the performance from the ace, the performance from the shortstop, Caballero. |
| 0:59.8 | The two guys we talked about all day yesterday, how important it was that Cam go out there and rebound. |
| 1:07.0 | And we're going to get to Cam in a little bit. |
| 1:08.8 | And not only is it the performance, not only is it the eight innings, which, how often do you see eight inings? Again, Keith Hernandez last night used my five-and-fly term. So we know what five-and-fly guys look like. There's a lot of them in Major League Baseball today. But to go eight innings, four hits, one run, zero walks and eight strikeouts. |
| 1:29.1 | And yeah, he mixed in the curveball. |
| 1:30.4 | But again, all the people who said, oh, you can't just do it on fastballs, |
| 1:33.3 | blowing away this Tampa Bay lineup. |
| 1:35.9 | This Tampa Bay lineup that's so dominant. |
| 1:38.5 | He did what you have to do to beat Tampa Bay. |
| 1:40.7 | You get the first three guys out, Diazoronda and Camerro. |
| 1:43.8 | You get those guys out. The rest of the first three guys out. Diazoronda and Camerro, you get those guys out. |
| 1:45.0 | The rest of the lineup can hurt you. We'll get through all of that as well and their main |
| 1:49.5 | competition for the New York Yankees. But we have to start somewhere specifically because we'll |
| 1:53.9 | get to Cam throughout the show. We'll get to the actual raise and whether or not they're a |
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