Yankees manager touches on struggles of highly touted rookie

New York Yankees supervisor Aaron Boone is not but shedding sleep over the truth that shortstop Anthony Volpe has largely regarded just like the MLB rookie he’s on the plate this spring.

“It’s additionally vital to see Volp the previous few days has run into some powerful luck,” Boone mentioned throughout a Tuesday look on the “Talkin’ Yanks” podcast, as shared by John Healy of Audacy. “[He] hits a ball to the fence to start out the sport yesterday; smokes one other ball that the third baseman makes a very good play on him. Identical in Tampa, I feel back-to-back days he hit bullets to start out the sport for outs. Been somewhat little bit of that, then unexpectedly whenever you haven’t acquired outcomes and also you smoke two balls for outs and then you definately punch out, it’s like ‘oh, you’re actually struggling.’ I don’t actually see it that method.” 

Volpe had his identify talked about in American League Rookie of the Yr dialog final month however has but to satisfy what had been probably some unrealistic expectations hovering over his standing after he made the Opening Day roster. The 22-year-old started Tuesday slashing .205/.307/.320 with three residence runs and 9 RBI throughout 36 video games, and ESPN stats present his 41 strikeouts had been the fifteenth most in all of MLB heading into Tuesday. 

In fact, Volpe is hardly the one disappointing side of the Yankees as of the second week of Could. The Bronx Bombers enter Tuesday’s league motion sitting useless final within the AL East standings and trailing the first-place Tampa Bay Rays by 10 video games, and New York’s offense is ranked twenty third total with 147 runs scored.

To match, the Rays scored a league-best 228 runs over their first 36 video games. 

Slugger and reigning AL Most Priceless Participant Aaron Choose is about to return from the injured checklist forward of Tuesday’s sport in opposition to the Oakland Athletics. Boone famous that having Choose and others again within the combine might permit the skipper to shift Volpe out of the leadoff spot and down the batting order.

“He’s taken his lumps right here and there, however I additionally suppose it’s going to serve him effectively, he’ll course of it effectively,” Boone added about Volpe. “I’ve been actually happy with what he’s doing.”