Amid all of the things that have gone wrong this summer, at least we’re seeing good things out of Anthony Volpe.
At the very least, it’s great that most people seem to have been able to look past some of Volpe’s subpar surface numbers — namely, a .217 batting average, .691 OPS, and propensity to strike out with a rate of one every three-and-a-half trips to the plate — and look mostly elsewhere when assigning blame for this disaster of a campaign. He’s still satisfied the traditional offensive benchmarks, three homers away from joining A-Rod, Fernando Tatis Jr.