Boston – In the short term, Anthony Volpe is expected to start no matches against the Red Sox this weekend because of the Cortison injection that he received in his left shoulder on Wednesday.
Even once it is fully available, full far from guaranteed is immediately back to start at Shortstop, especially since José Caballero gets an even longer runway to hold the job.
Regarding further than this year? Brian Cashman indicated on Friday that he still sees the 24-year-old Volpe as the Yankees Shortstop of the future.
“Yes, I think he is a good player,” Cashman said in Fenway Park for the 4-1 victory of the Yankees over the Red Sox. “Despite this year, he has many capacities that are positive. He has had a difficult stretch, but I think he is someone we can count on and we believe in.
“But at the same time acknowledging, this is not the season we expected or he had expected. But that does not change our point of view about what he is capable of. I think he is a real talented man and I think he has the chance to be a positive impact on us.”
Volpe has sometimes shown flashes of this during his first three years in the large competitions, but not consistent enough.
And he put steps back on both sides of the ball this season, while he entered the weekend .206 with a .661 Ops and defensive statistics that have returned.
In 460 career games he hit .221 with a .661 Ops.
Now the Yankees will have to determine how much the partial Labrum – Tane in his shoulder – which they discovered after he dived a doll for a ball on 3 May – influenced his performance this season.
He played through it and then worsened the injury on a different diving game on Sunday, which led to the Cortisone shot on Wednesday that will last three to four days to recover.
“It is clearly something he is bothered by,” Cashman said. “Earlier in the year it came to the fore. They did the image, hit him with a shot and he immediately had an advantage. So we thought it was behind him. But he is a hard player. He always dives everywhere. It is like a broad receiver going for a pass and fell on his shoulder and next you know a little more and maybe it was just once again agent and maybe.
“Between that time he has not had any complaints. At the same time you look at the numbers. So I would say it is not black and white. It’s gray. I don’t know if anyone really has an answer to it.”
Cashman said that the operation outside the season could not be excluded, with the Yankees being planning to make his more imaging of the shoulder after the season is over.
Regarding the more direct concern, Cashman suggested to Boone how the Shortstop situation would play as soon as Volpe is fully available again, whereby the manager describes it as fluently.
‘[Caballero] Plays really well and does a lot of really good things, but there is a value in the days that he is on the couch, “said Boone of the Shortstop, who hit 1-out-4 in Friday’s victory.” What he brings as a weapon and the versatility he offers. … We are at that time of the year where I am going to do what I think is best for us every day. “
Until recently, the Yankees were done their best to defend the game of Volpe this season, but on this point on the calendar with the club that still tried to chase the Blue Jays for the division, their tone has changed.
So their line -ups, with Caballero who started his third consecutive game on Friday and finally made it at the end of the weekend.
‘Hopefully in the coming days [Volpe] Gets this on and he is back in the mix, “said Boone.” We really saw him put it on the last late season, some of his best baseball, and hopefully that is still for him. “
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