If you keep saying it is sunny outside and everyone sees the clouds daily, at some point your credibility in describing the weather vanishes.
I would say it is the same if you keep minimizing the mistakes of your starting shortstop and acting like what everyone else is seeing is wrong. After a while, it will make us all wonder if, indeed, Aaron Boone was just acting when assessing the decay in every way of Anthony Volpe’s game this year.
How about this? I will give Boone the choice: Were you publicly acting like all was OK with Volpe this year or did you actually think all was OK? In other words, were you disingenuous or incompetent?
After another hitless game had brought Volpe’s average down to .209 — the lowest it had been since the fourth week of April — and he had thrown to the wrong base in the ninth inning Friday night, Boone went through some circular logic about how the attempt to get Jarren Duran retreating at second in the ninth inning, being “obviously not the right play,” also was a “heady play.”
