TAMPA — For the 2025 season, the Yankees are hoping they may see the 2024 postseason model of Anthony Volpe.
To this point, his spring stats don’t point out he’s there but.
Via Wednesday, Volpe had gone 5-for-28 with 10 strikeouts.
However, spring outcomes don’t all the time have a lot weight to them, and to Aaron Boone they’ve none in regard to what he expects from the third-year, 23-year-old Yankee.
“I feel like he’s ready to make another jump offensively. I really feel like that’s coming,” the supervisor mentioned on Sunday at Roger Dean Chevrolet Stadium in Jupiter, Fla.
In his first playoff expertise, Volpe hit .286 with an .815 OPS throughout 14 video games that finally ended with the Yankees dropping to the Dodgers in Recreation 5 of the World Sequence.
The shortstop additionally had 10 walks and struck out 13 occasions, and considerably minimize down his chase fee to 12.5 p.c through the playoffs after reaching 29.3 p.c through the common season.
“His swing is different. His moves is what it needs to be,” Boone mentioned. “Strength. Power. Now experience. Success — consistent success he had in that month of the playoffs. He had good at-bat after good at-bat. I think he’s just started with an improved move at the plate that he carried into the offseason, continued to hone, and I think you’re going to see closer to that than we did some of the struggles we’ve seen.”
Between the tip of the common season and the playoffs, Volpe had constant days within the cage to make minor changes to his swing — changes that made him really feel extra comfy and athletic within the batter’s field. He hasn’t tried to alter something for the reason that finish of the postseason.
“I think I’m just doing more consistent moves and I feel really good,” Volpe instructed The Publish on Sunday. “So, when I got back in the game, I felt really good about how the season ended. Got to lock in on some things and got to build upon them. So, I think it can be even better. So, controlling the zone, having good at-bats, everything else should follow. I feel like I’m in a good spot to allow myself to do that.”
The lifelong Yankees fan might be chasing these postseason numbers whereas out for an enormous Yr 3.
“I feel like it’s just a level of confidence to me now just from going through stuff that you’re maybe not able to get it without going through everything,” Volpe mentioned. “It’s just an exciting feeling.”
