NEW YORK — Anthony Volpe’s rehab from left shoulder surgery ended Sunday, but the shortstop’s next step is not rejoining the New York Yankees.<\/p>\n
With Jose Caballero excelling as New York’s everyday shortstop, the AL East-leading Yankees announced they had optioned Volpe to Triple-A Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre.<\/p>\n
“Caballero is playing the heck out of the position and playing really well,” manager Aaron Boone said before Sunday’s 11-3 win over Baltimore. “That complicates it.”<\/p>\n
Volpe batted .250 (11-for-44) in 13 minor league rehabilitation games, mostly for Double-A Somerset. Sunday was the maximum 20th day for a rehab assignment in the minors.<\/p>\n
If Volpe remains in the minors for another 20 days or more, it will delay his free agent eligibility by a year until after the 2029 season.<\/p>\n
Volpe had left shoulder surgery Oct. 14, a week after the Yankees were eliminated by Toronto in the AL Division Series.<\/p>\n
He hit .212 with 19 homers and a career-high 72 RBIs last year but made a career-high 19 errors, tied for third most among major league shortstops. He got a cortisone shot Sept. 10 after aggravating a previous shoulder injury three days earlier.<\/p>\n
Volpe also had a cortisone shot during the All-Star break. He initially got hurt when he felt a pop in the shoulder during a loss to Tampa Bay on May 3 last season.<\/p>\n
As a rookie in 2023, Volpe won a Gold Glove and hit .209 with 21 homers, 60 RBIs and had 24 stolen bases after winning the shortstop job in spring training.<\/p>\n
He batted .243 with 12 homers and 60 RBIs in 2024.<\/p>\n
In the 2024 playoffs, Volpe batted .286 and hit a grand slam in Game 4 of the World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers.<\/p>\n
Caballero has started at shortstop in 33 of the Yankees’ 34 games this season. On Friday, he had a go-ahead, second-inning homer off Baltimore’s Cade Povich. He is batting .259 with four homers, 12 RBIs and 13 stolen bases.<\/p>\n
“He’s been right in the middle of that, defensively and offensively,” Boone said. “He’s earned some opportunities there. It’s really as simple as that.”<\/p>\n
A 29-year-old acquired from Tampa Bay last July 31, Caballero is hitting .316 (24-for-76) with 11 RBIs in his past 21 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK — Anthony Volpe’s rehab from left shoulder surgery ended Sunday, but the shortstop’s next step is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[240561,49,48,462,92085,82],"class_list":["post-646265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-anthony-volpe-sports-baseball-player-player-statscom-1169602","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-yankees-sports-baseball-team-team-statscom-234","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646265","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=646265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}