{"id":131042,"date":"2025-09-09T11:09:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T11:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/131042\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T11:09:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T11:09:04","slug":"anthony-volpe-wont-be-playoff-shortstop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/131042\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Volpe won&#8217;t be playoff shortstop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am not much for predictions. I like sports for many reasons \u2014 among the biggest is that as opposed to most of life, we will get resolution on everything, from who wins each game to who earns awards to who captures championships.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t like the current sports ecosystem in which folks boldly state \u2014 usually they scream, actually \u2014what is going to happen and then boast about the one-in-four they get right.<\/p>\n<p>So you know what is coming next, right? I am going to make a prediction. Hopefully, it is borne of history, observation and experience \u2014 and also comes with a larger point.<\/p>\n<p>I am predicting that Anthony Volpe is going to be Gary S\u00e1nchez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I am not much for predictions. I like sports for many reasons \u2014 among the biggest is that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[14251,49,48,68844,28238,462,3980,82,2089],"class_list":["post-131042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-anthony-volpe","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-davey-johnson","tag-gary-sanchez","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}