PostSportsPlus: Why the Yankees’ shortstop competition should be between Anthony Volpe and Oswald Peraza
That is not a sentence you expected to read today, right?Fernandez had been the primary shortstop on the 1995 Yankees — the organization’s first playoff team since 1981. Fernandez did not play well in 1995. He was down from his Gold Glove Blue Jays peak. But I am comfortable writing this sentence regardless of the difference in age or the difference in Wins Above Replacement: I would take Fernandez going into 1996 over Kiner-Falefa going into 2023.
Derek Jeter spot as the Yankees’ starting shortstop in 1996 was secured when Tony Fernandez suffered a season-ending injury during spring training.These being George’s Yankees, they convened a meeting not long after this because one of Steinbrenner’s confidants, Clyde King, had told the owner the Yankees could not win with Jeter at shortstop.
Though George Steinbrenner pushed to start Derek Jeter as a rookie, concerns over Jeter’s readiness almost prompted the team to trade away Mariano Rivera.Cashman noted that Jeter ultimately became a Hall of Famer. But in the moment, the offseason of 1995-96, he was closer to a composite of Peraza and Volpe today than Cooperstown-bound.
I would look upon Peraza/Volpe as trying to usurp a player a lot closer to the 2021-22 version of Gregorius than to Correa. That isn’t a high bar. The defensive metrics liked Kiner-Falefa more than the eye test did. His offense was contact-heavy and low-impact.
What happens if Peraza and/or Volpe — or both — show in spring that they are ready to play in the majors? Do they play in the majors? Or to preserve the other assets, do the Yankees just option them to the minors to wait for injury/underperformance? Or does Cashman trade Kiner-Falefa and/or Torres? Perhaps he finds a team to take on as much of Donaldson’s $27 million as possible ?
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