{"id":90695,"date":"2025-09-10T07:56:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T07:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=90695"},"modified":"2025-09-10T07:56:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T07:56:12","slug":"yankees-aaron-boone-gives-plan-for-anthony-volpe-believe-and-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=90695","title":{"rendered":"Yankees&#8217; Aaron Boone Gives Plan For Anthony Volpe: &#8216;Believe And Hope&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><main id=\"main-container\" role=\"main\"><\/main>The New York Yankees have been on a roll,\u00a0winning 11 of their last 14\u00a0to turn around what had looked like a season slipping away. They are riding the first-place Toronto Blue Jays&#8217; tail, just two games out in the American League East, and are clinging to\u00a0a one-game lead\u00a0over the Boston Red Sox for the top AL Wild Card spot.<\/p>\n<p>But ahead of six crucial games \u2014 three against the AL Central-leading Detroit Tigers starting Tuesday, followed by a trip to Fenway Park for the final three meetings of the year with the Red Sox \u2014 the Yankees still have a serious problem.<\/p>\n<p>That problem&#8217;s name is Anthony Volpe.<\/p>\n<p>The third-year shortstop is essentially a hometown kid, from Morristown, New Jersey, less than an\u00a0hour west of Yankee Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Volpe was the Yankees first-round draft pick, 30th overall, in 2019, out of Delbarton High School in Morristown.<\/p>\n<p>He seems to be the ideal Yankee \u2014 but statistically, Volpe has been and continues to be one of the worst players in baseball this season.<\/p>\n<p>Defensively, Volpe has been a disaster, with\u00a0an AL-leading 19 errors\u00a0(second only in\u00a0MLB\u00a0to Elly De La Cruz of the Cincinnati Reds with 23). On the offensive side of the ball, Volpe&#8217;s wRC+ \u2014 a measure of run production where the league average is set at 100 \u2014 is\u00a0seventh-worst among qualified players\u00a0at 82.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>More MLB:\u00a0Yankees Manager Aaron Boone Gives Bizarre Defense of Anthony Volpe Blunder<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>His\u00a0OPS of .663 is fifth\u00a0from the bottom. His Win Probability Added (WPA) is eighth worst of the 147\u00a0qualified players measured by Fangraphs at -2.09.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, manager Aaron Boone continues to stand by Volpe, playing him at shortstop in\u00a0140 of the Yankees 143 games\u00a0in 2025, heading into Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Yankees can&#8217;t afford their shortstop to be both an offensive black hole and a defensive liability in the same season,&#8221; wrote\u00a0Empire Sports Media founder Alexander Wilson\u00a0on Tuesday. &#8220;That&#8217;s where Jose Caballero enters the conversation, a versatile utility man capable of taking over full-time shortstop duties. Caballero has logged over 1,100 innings at short, with four defensive runs saved and nine outs above average in his career.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But Boone appears to have no plan at shortstop for the Yankees&#8217; stretch drive other than sticking with Volpe \u2014\u00a0as he told Bryan Hoch of MLB.com\u00a0on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The manager&#8217;s problem, however, is that with the upcoming six games against two opponents whose combined winning percentage is .561 \u2014 sixth-best in baseball if they were a single team \u2014 the Yankees cannot afford to make mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>Whether Boone will finally make the call to pull Volpe from the lineup appears to be the top question Yankee fans are asking as the season enters its final three weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Yankees shortstop continues to be one of the statistically worst players in baseball. 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