Yanks bench ‘scuffling’ Anthony Volpe, return to lineup unclear
With Anthony Volpe in the midst of another crisis, the stopped stop found itself outside the Yankees departure training for the final of the series of Sunday against the Red Sox.
Volpe has been a pillar of Yankees programming since he won the starting work of the spring training team as a recruit in 2023. However, Aaron Boone did not commit to the 24 -year -old action against the Nationals.
“Yeah, we will see,” said the manager. “We will see. I did not make any final [decisions]. “”
Boone added that Volpe is entirely healthy, although the director general of Yankees, Brian Cashman, previously said that the inner field player had played things this season. Volpe struck his left shoulder at the start of the year and took ground at his left elbow in June.
While Volpe has been a basic food since its beginnings, its daily presence is not deserved. Now coming at the end of his third big league season, Volpe entered the Sunday match with an oblique bar line of .222 / .284 / .380 and an 85 WRC + more than 1,799 career appearances.
Of the 88 players with 1,500 plates appearances since 2023, Volpe ranked 88th as a medium percentage and on base and 87th In WRC + and OPS (.665).
This season, Volpe struck .208 / .274 / .400 with 18 circuits, 65 products produced, 15 stolen bases and an 86 WRC + during its first 128 games. He has already established a career summit for RBI and is likely to exceed his personal record of 21 circuits. But he remained subject to peaks and extreme valleys, pursuing a trend that made him an enigma on the plate.
The Volpe bench followed a section of 8 for 66 (.121) which had only one circuit stroke and 19 stick withdrawals in as many games. Before that, he went 14 for 50 with seven circuits in 14 games after the stars break.
To worsen things, the defense of the Golden Gloves of Volpe has undergone serious regression this season. His 17 errors did not hang out until Elly de La Cruz Sunday, while her -7 withdrawals higher than the average classified 22ND Out of 25 qualified stops.
While Boone mainly excused the bad defense and almost all the errors that Volpe makes – he had better set up before the Red Sox series – the skipper recognized that the player had “failed” marble in the last 7 to 10 days.
It was longer than that, however, provoking repeated hoots for the fan of childhood yankees.
“I think he manages it pretty well,” said Boone when asked if the control has made a mental number on Volpe. “I don’t think he is too affected by these things. It is only a young player who works his tail and is super competitive and tries to find this next level of coherence in his game offensively.
“He is mentally very hard and totally wired to manage all the things that go with great fever in this city and a young big fever who has a lot of expectations for him.”
It remains to be seen that the Yankees will adjust their expectations for Volpe – or its role – because Boone and Cashman have won the New York native several times while insisting that he has more to offer.
With Volpe on the bench on Sunday, however, the versatile José Caballero ended up at the stopped stop. The career of the Speedster Yankees has achieved a hot start, while Caballero struck .320 / .433 / .600 with two circuits, four products produced and six stolen bases during its first 14 games with the team after an exchange of Rays.
Boone called Caballero a “sparkle”, and he noted that the annoying player gives Yankees an alternative to the solid stop on the bench. The team did not have this earlier this season when Oswald Peraza, a clever field field but one of the worst baseball strikers, was the club’s rescue stop.
“Cabbie gives you this real utility presence that can go and play anywhere, and especially play short,” said Boone. “We are at the game all hands over the season. We brought Caballero, who changes the staff we have and what we can do. ”
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