{"id":222493,"date":"2026-05-06T21:37:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T21:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/222493\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T21:37:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T21:37:13","slug":"brian-cashman-tells-the-post-how-theyre-handling-anthony-volpe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/222493\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Cashman tells The Post how they&#8217;re handling Anthony Volpe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Cashman is filing the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/03\/sports\/anthony-volpe-optioned-to-minors-as-yankees-return-will-have-to-wait\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yankees\u2019 decision to option former top prospect Anthony Volpe to Triple-A<\/a> under the heading of a good problem to have.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re paid to make very difficult decisions,\u201d the Yankees general manager told The Post at BTIG Charity Day. \u201cThis year\u2019s Yankees team is a lot deeper. We have a lot more choices. And (Jose) Caballero has emerged with his play, and so we kind of had to honor that. He snuck up on us a little bit, but that\u2019s good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/05\/sports\/yankees-anthony-volpe-tells-the-post-there-are-things-he-cant-control\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Volpe sounded reluctant<\/a> to shift from shortstop to utility infielder during Tuesday\u2019s interview with The Post while playing in Worcester, Mass. <\/p>\n<p>Top prospect George Lombard is a shortstop by trade but has played some second base and third base in the minors and will have to be versatile while teaming with Volpe for Scranton-Wilkes Barre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brian Cashman is filing the Yankees\u2019 decision to option former top prospect Anthony Volpe to Triple-A under the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4459,11947,68,20,9,11,10,321,319,428],"class_list":["post-222493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-anthony-volpe","tag-brian-cashman","tag-exclusive","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}