Yankees option Anthony Volpe to Triple-A as Jose Caballero continues to thrive at shortstop

As the New York Yankees continued to rotation to commencement the season, owning the champion grounds successful the American League aft an 11-3 triumph connected Sunday implicit the Baltimore Orioles, they had a large determination to marque by the extremity of the day.

What should beryllium done with shortstop Anthony Volpe, a polarizing fig among the instrumentality basal whose rehab duty ended?

While Volpe was rehabbing from near enarthrosis surgery, Jose Caballero, who was acquired by the Yankees past season, has been doing much than conscionable playing a serviceable shortstop. He’s been coming up successful clutch positions arsenic good arsenic being a creaseless mitt astatine 1 of the astir important positions connected the diamond.

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Anthony Volpe of the Somerset Patriots fields during a Minor League Baseball crippled astatine TD Bank Ballpark successful Bridgewater, N.J., connected May 1, 2026. (Dan Squicciarini/NurPhoto)

As a result, the Yankees made the determination to person Volpe not re-join the team, but alternatively enactment the 25-year-old to the Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders.

"Caballero is playing the heck retired of the presumption and playing truly well," Yankees manager Aaron Boone said anterior to the Yankees’ triumph connected Sunday, per ESPN. "That complicates it."

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Caballero has been the Yankees’ superior shortstop crossed 34 games this season, and has done good with the regular at-bats, which usually travel toward the bottommost of the lineup. He is slashing .259/.306/.405 with a .711 OPS, 4 homers and 12 RBIs frankincense far.

Meanwhile, Volpe went 11-for-44 (.250) during his 13 rehab games successful the insignificant leagues, which mostly came with the Double-A Somerset Patriots.

Volpe ended up getting enarthrosis country connected Oct. 14, which came aft the Yankees were eliminated from the MLB postseason by the Toronto Blue Jays, the squad that won the American League pennant.

New York Yankees shortstop Anthony Volpe throws the shot to archetypal basal for an retired during the eighth inning against the New York Mets astatine Citi Field. (Vincent Carchietta/Imagn Images)

But the wounded was 1 that bothered Volpe passim the season. He received a cortisone changeable successful the enarthrosis during the All-Star break, and past erstwhile much connected Sept. 10 aft an aggravation of the injury.

Volpe went connected to deed .212/.272/.391 with a .663 OPS crossed 153 games for New York, belting 19 homers and notching a career-high 72 RBIs. However, fans had problems with Volpe’s deficiency of consistency astatine shortstop, tallying 19 errors, which was third-most among large league players astatine the position.

Volpe was the Yankees’ first-round prime of the 2019 MLB Amateur Draft, and aft uncovering accelerated occurrence successful the insignificant leagues, helium debuted successful 2023 arsenic the team’s starting shortstop retired of outpouring training.

After hitting 21 location runs, contempt hitting conscionable .209 with a .283 on-base percentage, the Yankees liked what they saw from their 22-year-old shortstop who was besides named a Gold Glover that season.

Anthony Volpe of the Somerset Patriots enters the tract during a Minor League Baseball crippled astatine TD Bank Ballpark successful Bridgewater, N.J., connected May 1, 2026. (Dan Squicciarini/NurPhoto)

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This isn’t to accidental Volpe is going to walk the 2026 play outright successful the minors, but the Yankees are not going to beryllium switching things up arsenic they stay hot.

In the meantime, Volpe volition usage his Triple-A at-bats and reps astatine shortstop to get close for erstwhile the Yankees yet get him backmost successful the bigs.

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