Yankees heralded rookie shortstop Anthony Volpe is playing solid or better defense, showing surprising if sporadic power and toiling hard at his current issue with contact, which is that he isn’t m…
Yankees heralded rookie shortstop Anthony Volpe is playing solid or better defense, showing surprising if sporadic power and toiling hard at his current issue with contact, which is that he isn’t making enough of it.
Two scouts who’ve followed him for years see a swing that’s different, more “uphill” and harder than ever. They say they believe he’s bought into the launch-angle theory . One scout, who professed to be one of the biggest Volpe fans going, even suggested he might need to go down to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre to work out this issue and reacquire his previous swing.
Following his extra batting practice, Volpe consented to an interview, and he did it with a smile, though a couple of the questions couldn’t have been comfortable. I let him know what a couple of scouts are saying. The scout who loves Volpe said he actually wanted to throw the remote against the TV on Sunday night after watching Kenley Jansen whiff Volpe seemingly with ease, thanks to his borderline Hall of Fame high hard stuff .
“That’s so far out of my control,” Volpe said about the minors. “This team has taken me in since Day 1 of spring training. We have such big games every night, so if I was thinking of anything else, that would be a disservice to the guys in the clubhouse. That’s the furthest thing from my mind.”
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