{"id":171574,"date":"2025-08-24T11:36:41","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T11:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/171574\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T11:36:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T11:36:41","slug":"aaron-boone-open-to-giving-anthony-volpe-a-breather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/171574\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Boone open to giving Anthony Volpe a breather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before the Yankees\u2019 latest no-show against the Red Sox, manager Aaron Boone said he has thought of giving Anthony Volpe a breather now that he has an option at shortstop in trade-deadline acquisition Jos\u00e9 Caballero.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEspecially with Caballero, I gave him one the other day,\u201d Boone said. \u201cThose can be in play here, but I wasn\u2019t going to do it with a lefty today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Volpe went out and showed Boone he may need one. <\/p>\n<p>He committed his 17th error of the season in the ninth inning of the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/23\/sports\/yankees-crushed-by-red-sox-in-embarrassing-eighth-straight-loss-to-rival\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yankees\u2019 ugly 12-1 loss<\/a>, along with another day at the plate without a hit.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Volpe reacts during the Yankees\u2019 Aug. 23 loss to the Red Sox. Corey Sipkin for the NY Post<\/p>\n<p>It also included him laying down a questionable sacrifice bunt in the fourth inning with one out and the Yankees trailing by three runs.<\/p>\n<p>Boone came to Volpe\u2019s defense on his, well, defense. <\/p>\n<p>In the Red Sox seven-run ninth, Volpe air-mailed a throw on a David Hamilton grounder. <\/p>\n<p>He is one error shy of a career high, having committed 17 as a rookie in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Volpe drops a sacrifice bunt during the Yankees\u2019 Aug. 23 loss.  Corey Sipkin for the NY Post<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVolpe made an error, it was his first in a few weeks,\u201d the manager said. \u201cHe\u2019s been playing really well out there, made a bad throw.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Volpe <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/23\/sports\/yankees-anthony-volpe-booed-after-strikeout-makes-mental-error\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">committed a mental mistake Friday night<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>With Jarren Duran on second base and one out in a 1-0 game in the ninth inning, Ceddanne Rafaela hit a grounder to Volpe and instead of making the routine throw to first, Volpe threw behind Duran to Jazz Chisholm Jr. at second. <\/p>\n<p>Duran was safe and Rafaela beat Chisholm\u2019s throw to first. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards, Boone said it was \u201cobviously not the right play\u201d but also called it a \u201cheady play.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s harder to defend Volpe offensively, as he has hit another dry spell. <\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s in a 1-for-28 drought and is batting .169 in the month of August. <\/p>\n<p>Anthony Volpe reacts after recording an out during the Yankees\u2019 Aug. 23 loss to the Red Sox. Corey Sipkin for the NY Post<\/p>\n<p>His OPS on the season is down to .675 and his batting average has fallen to .208.<\/p>\n<p>Boone kept Volpe in the lineup Saturday because he wanted his righty bat against the lefty, Red Sox ace Garrett Crochet. <\/p>\n<p>Yet, in the fourth, Volpe laid down a sacrifice bunt, a sign of his diminished confidence.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGo beyond the box score with the Bombers\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSign up for Inside the Yankees by Greg Joyce, exclusively on Sports+.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThank you\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees\u2019 shortstop is struggling and hearing more frequent boos. <\/p>\n<p>Maybe a break, as Boone suggested he has considered, could help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before the Yankees\u2019 latest no-show against the Red Sox, manager Aaron Boone said he has thought of giving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":171575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,5243,1281,1266,405,403,2228,5226,5225,5228,5227,62,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-171574","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-anthony-volpe","10":"tag-boston-red-sox","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-new-york-yankees","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115083541435938399","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}