00:00But while there is a smile to a lot of us while we do this, you have to admit, if
00:04this continues with George Lombard Jr., he's not starting playoff games.
00:09Like, if this is a thing that he doesn't get out of, you have to admit this becomes a major
00:14issue.
00:14If you want to tell me it's only six, yeah, it's sure tied a major league record, but I'm not
00:19worried yet, you have to admit there comes a point where you'd be worried.
00:22Are you a hypocrite? What did I do?
00:24So let me just understand this.
00:26You think it's crazy to try to nip this in the bud and just give him a rest, give him
00:31a breather today before playing three games in two days, but, you know, if this continues, you've got to send
00:35him to AAA.
00:36No kidding.
00:36That's not hypocrisy.
00:37That's me telling you, here's how I would handle it.
00:39It is a mental issue.
00:40I've admitted that.
00:41I don't think sitting him helps the mental issue.
00:44I continue to play him.
00:45I have to reevaluate if he makes errors in 13 great games.
00:48What am I supposed to do?
00:49Just stay in here and say, hey, I said he was Andrew Till Simmons.
00:52I guess I have to own that.
00:53No, Evan, this is my point.
00:55So you're just going to send him down before he ever gets a chance to have a breather?
00:58Not yet.
00:59No, no.
00:59Not yet.
00:59Okay, but you just brought up 13 straight games.
01:01Yeah.
01:02This is my point.
01:03I'm going to agree with you if we get there.
01:04I would like to try something to just quiet and stop it before we even get to that point.
01:10I think what you're trying, though, of sitting him actually makes it worse.
01:13Now, if your question to me, and it's a great question, would be, hey, Evan, okay, at what
01:18point do you say, damn, this is a problem.
01:22I got to do something?
01:22That's a great question.
01:23I wish I could give you an answer.
01:25Maybe it's the next week or so if the defense continues to be wildly inconsistent.
01:32Well, I don't think it's consecutive games.
01:33If his defense continues, put it this way.
01:35If every ground ball to shortstop becomes an adventure where you are nervous the way you
01:41were with the former goal-glover Anthony Volpe, then I think you have to finally address it
01:45because let's not forget Jose Caballero played some great shortstop when Volpe was hurt.
01:50Ryan McMahon will be back relatively soon, and so you have another option.
01:54The guy who played shortstop at the most consistent level of any Yankee this year
01:59is still on the team.
02:01He might be the one.
02:02And his name is Jose Caballero.
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