{"id":648031,"date":"2026-05-04T01:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T01:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/648031\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T01:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T01:30:17","slug":"yankees-option-anthony-volpe-to-triple-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/648031\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees Option Anthony Volpe To Triple-A"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Yankees have activated Anthony Volpe<\/a> from the 10-day injured list and optioned the shortstop to Triple-A, as per a team announcement. \u00a0Joel Sherman of the New York Post<\/a> broke the news shortly before the Yankees\u2019 official release.<\/p>\n

After undergoing shoulder surgery last October, Volpe began this season on the 10-day IL to allow more time to fully recuperate.\u00a0 He began a minor league rehab assignment in April that has thus far consisted of 13 games (nine in Double-A, four in Triple-A), and today marked the final day of the 20-day window allotted for rehab assignments.\u00a0 The Yankees therefore had to decide on activating Volpe and adding him either to the big league roster, or optioning him to Triple-A.<\/p>\n

The writing seemed to be on the wall yesterday when New York manager Aaron Boone<\/a> said<\/a> Volpe would be kept in the minors for the entirety of his 20-day rehab period.\u00a0 While Boone said Volpe was in \u201ca really good spot and had a good rehab,\u201d the skipper also noted that the shortstop \u201cplayed, what, two-plus weeks of games.\u00a0 Spring Training is a lot longer than that.\u00a0 And he got a lot of live at-bats and reads in the field even leading up to that.\u00a0 He\u2019s had pretty much close to a full Spring Training, but I don\u2019t think it hurts to have him continue to play regularly.\u201d<\/p>\n

This rehab assignment had marked Volpe\u2019s first taste of minor league ball since 2022, as had pretty much been a fixture at the Yankees\u2019 shortstop position since he made his MLB debut on Opening Day 2023.\u00a0 As a consensus top-10 prospect in baseball, Volpe\u2019s debut came with a ton of hype, and those (probably unfair) expectations have yet to be met over three big league seasons.<\/p>\n

Volpe has hit .222\/.283\/.379 with 52 homers over 1886 career PA in the Show, translating to an 85 wRC+.\u00a0 He was at least a superb defender in his first two seasons and won the AL shortstop Gold Glove in 2023, but Volpe\u2019s glovework also drastically dropped off last year, likely due to the fact that he played through much of the season with a partially torn left labrum.<\/p>\n

New York acquired Jose Caballero<\/a> from the Rays at last summer\u2019s deadline, and the utilityman quickly made an impression upon his arrival in the Bronx, particularly when he filled in at shortstop when Volpe spent a week recovering from a cortisone shot.\u00a0 With the knowledge that Volpe could likely miss time at the start of the 2026 campaign to recover, the Yankees explored the shortstop market last winter but opted to stick with Caballero as the interim shortstop, and the results have been very solid.<\/p>\n

Through 124 PA this season, Caballero is hitting .259\/.306\/.405 with four home runs, as well as 13 stolen bases in 17 attempts.\u00a0 Even his modest 99 wRC+ is still an improvement over Volpe\u2019s career numbers, and Caballero has also put himself in the early Gold Glove conversation with his strong defensive play at shortstop.<\/p>\n

The \u201cif it ain\u2019t broke, don\u2019t fix it\u201d cliche may be the simplest answer behind the Yankees\u2019 decision on Volpe.\u00a0 New York is 23-11 and its .676 winning percentage is the second-best in baseball, behind only the Braves.\u00a0 There isn\u2019t any real pressing need for Volpe to be brought up now, and should Caballero start to struggle or if an injury arises elsewhere within New York\u2019s infield, Volpe can easily be called up for his 2026 debut.<\/p>\n

(In what may be a related item, Ben Rice<\/a> is day-to-day with a left hand contusion that forced him out of today\u2019s game.\u00a0 X-rays were negative on Rice\u2019s hand, and the fact that the Yankees are still optioning Volpe is probably a sign that Rice might miss a game or two at most.)<\/p>\n

In the bigger picture, it is fair to wonder if Volpe is still considered a key piece of the Yankees\u2019 future plans.\u00a0 He is only in his first year of arbitration eligibility and is under team control through 2028, yet Volpe now finds himself in the position of seemingly having to just win his old job back, let alone figure out how to break out against MLB pitchers.\u00a0 New York has another top shortstop prospect in George Lombard Jr.<\/a> knocking on the door for his big league debut, so Lombard might supplant Volpe if Caballero hasn\u2019t done so already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Yankees have activated Anthony Volpe from the 10-day injured list and optioned the shortstop to Triple-A, as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[11000,64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-648031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-anthony-volpe","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}