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Yankees shortstop Anthony Volpe #11, fielding a ball during a workout at Steinbrenner Field, the Yankees Spring Training home in Tampa, Florida. Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/p>\nST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 Anthony Volpe is on the verge of beginning a rehab assignment, but he no longer feels like a rehabbing player.<\/p>\n
Six months removed from surgery to repair a torn labrum in his left shoulder, Volpe could begin a rehab assignment as soon as Tuesday with Double-A Somerset and is champing at the bit to get going.<\/p>\n
\u201cProbably the most excited I\u2019ve ever been,\u201d the shortstop said Sunday at Tropicana Field. \u201cJust having that perspective [of missing time], it doesn\u2019t matter, I\u2019ll play anywhere, I\u2019ll do anything.\u201d<\/p>\n
Volpe stayed back in Tampa when the season started to continue his rehab, which has included taking live at-bats in simulated games over the past week and a half. He is scheduled to see team physician Dr. Christopher Ahmad on Monday, and if he gets the all-clear, will begin a rehab assignment, which comes with a maximum 20-day clock.<\/p>\n
Despite spending most of the offseason rehabbing the shoulder, Volpe said he viewed it as a \u201cblank slate\u201d to analyze his swing and see how he could get better after three full big league seasons in which he has posted an OPS of .666, .657 and .663.<\/p>\n
Yankees shortstop Anthony Volpe #11, fielding a ball during a workout at Steinbrenner Field, the Yankees Spring Training home in Tampa, Florida. Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/p>\n
\u201cJust cleaning up my bat path and just keeping it on plane for a lot longer,\u201d he said. \u201cWe found some stuff where it kind of went wrong. I think the stuff we worked on is very objective, and I feel like I can make adjustments off of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cam Schlittler recorded a career-high 21 swings and misses while striking out eight but gave up three runs on a season-high seven hits (plus his first walk of the season) across five innings.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust made the wrong pitches,\u201d Schlittler said. \u201cOverall, just kind of embarrassing. Got to be better there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Giancarlo Stanton got his second day off of the season Sunday, allowing Aaron Judge to DH and stay off the outfield turf. That forced Aaron Boone to use Randal Grichuk in right field, despite a tough right-on-right matchup with Drew Rasmussen and the veteran outfielder starting the season 0-for-10.<\/p>\n
Stanton came in to pinch hit for Grichuk in the seventh inning, grounding out but driving in a run that pulled the Yankees within 3-2. Instead of Stanton staying in to play the field, Boone had Amed Rosario play right field for the first time this season.<\/p>\n
Boone had said before the game that Rosario could get some time in the outfield off the bench and the occasional start, if needed.<\/p>\n
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New York Yankees infielder Amed Rosario (14) reacts to a pitch during the sixth inning against Tampa Bay Rays at Tropicana Field. Pablo Robles-Imagn Images<\/p>\n
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Before Stanton replaced him, Grichuk went 0-for-2, getting robbed of his first hit when second baseman Richie Palacios made a diving stop on his 102.7 mph grounder up the middle.<\/p>\n
A rough week for the Yankees with the automated ball-strike system continued Sunday, as Ben Rice looked at Strike 3 in a full count leading off the fourth inning and lightly touched his helmet before instantly appearing to regret it. He tried to talk his way out of it, but home plate umpire Dan Bellino charged him with the challenge, which was unsuccessful.<\/p>\n
This marked the first time the Yankees have been swept by the Rays since April 16-18, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 Anthony Volpe is on the verge of beginning a rehab assignment, but he no…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2376],"tags":[1205,5,4,1690,62,2548,2547,185,142],"class_list":{"0":"post-674438","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-yankees","8":"tag-anthony-volpe","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-yankees","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkyankees","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-yankees"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116394605554533580","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}