But Aaron Boone, who generally downplays any worries about potential injuries, sounded more concerned than Caballero.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s definitely some concern because Cabby, he\u2019s as tough as they come,\u201d Boone said. \u201cJust had a little hard time when he went to throw today. The good thing is hitting was good. So we\u2019ll see. He\u2019s going to get some tests [Tuesday] morning. See what we have over the next day or two.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Yankees manager Aaron Boone (17) and a trainer look in on s shortstop Jos\u00e9 Caballero (72) when he was hit by pitch in the elbow during the third inning on Wednesday, May 6, 2026. Robert Sabo for the NY Post<\/p>\n
Max Schuemann started at shortstop Monday night, and Boone indicated he would be comfortable with him (and perhaps Ryan McMahon in spot duty) filling the void if Caballero just needs a few days. <\/p>\n
If Caballero has to go on the injured list, the recently demoted Anthony Volpe and Oswaldo Cabrera would be candidates for a call-up from Triple-A.<\/p>\n
But first comes the MRI for Caballero, whose strong play on both sides of the ball over the first month-plus of the season forced the Yankees to change their plans for Volpe, whom they initially planned to reinsert at shortstop once he came off the IL last week.<\/p>\n
\u201c[Caballero] has been great,\u201d Boone said. \u201cHe\u2019s been such a good performer for us here to start the year, on both sides of the ball. He\u2019s been a key part of our team to this point, but again, hopefully it\u2019s just a day-to-day situation. We\u2019ll have a better idea of that [Tuesday].\u201d<\/p>\n
Caballero dodged an injury concern last week after he was hit on the left elbow by a pitch, needing only a day out of the lineup Thursday to deal with some swelling before playing all three games over the weekend in Milwaukee. <\/p>\n
He is still wearing tape on that left elbow Monday, but now has his right middle finger taped up as well.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The speedy Caballero was trying to steal second base in the ninth inning of a tie game Sunday when he dove back into first base, and while he was wearing a sliding glove on his right hand, it did not fully protect him.<\/p>\n
\u201cDidn\u2019t work,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s just the part that is covering that part of the finger, it\u2019s kind of soft, so it doesn\u2019t really help much.\u201d<\/p>\n
And so the shortstop with a 1.6 bWAR \u2014 the fifth-highest mark on the Yankees entering Monday \u2014 was put on hold.<\/p>\n
If Caballero does need to go on the IL, it would set up an interesting decision for the Yankees. <\/p>\n
Volpe did not exactly set the world on fire in his first week at Triple-A following his activation off the IL and demotion to Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre. <\/p>\n
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In five games, he hit 4-for-24 (.167) with a .472 OPS. <\/p>\n
Cabrera, who offers more positional flexibility, had a rough start to the season but has hit better of late, going 14-for-36 (.389) with a 1.032 OPS over his last nine games.<\/p>\n
Boone said he had not spoken to Volpe since giving him the news last Sunday that he was being optioned to Triple-A, but has maintained that the 25-year-old is equipped to handle it well.<\/p>\n
\u201cDefinitely it\u2019s challenging to deal with that, but everyone has challenges they\u2019ve got to deal with and some adversity they\u2019ve got to deal with,\u201d Boone said. \u201cHe\u2019s mentally a very tough kid and that\u2019ll serve him well as he navigates this.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BALTIMORE \u2014 Jos\u00e9 Caballero\u2019s hopes of remaining the Yankees starting shortstop hinge on a Tuesday morning MRI. For…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":790490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,5243,61866,1266,405,403,2228,5226,5225,5228,5227,32076,62,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-790489","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-jose-caballero","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-ryan-mcmahon","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116560209561553104","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790489","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=790489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}