{"id":107009,"date":"2025-09-12T00:32:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T04:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=107009"},"modified":"2025-09-12T00:32:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T04:32:31","slug":"yankees-anthony-volpe-confirmed-labrum-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/09\/12\/yankees-anthony-volpe-confirmed-labrum-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Yankees\u2019 Volpe Confirmed to Have Partially Torn Labrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Thursday afternoon, <\/span><a  href=\"http:\/\/mlb.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MLB.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s Bryan Hoch reported that New York Yankees shortstop <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/v\/volpean01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-09-12_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anthony Volpe<\/a> has been playing through injury, specifically a partially torn labrum. Volpe has been playing through the injury since making a diving effort against the Tampa Bay Rays on May 3. Hoch also confirmed that the 24-year-old received a cortisone shot over the All-Star break.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_106334\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-106334\" style=\"width: 497px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-106334\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/08\/USATSI_26921825-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"497\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/08\/USATSI_26921825-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/08\/USATSI_26921825-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/08\/USATSI_26921825-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/08\/USATSI_26921825-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/08\/USATSI_26921825-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/08\/USATSI_26921825-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/08\/USATSI_26921825-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-106334\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aug 24, 2025; Bronx, New York, USA; New York Yankees shortstop Anthony Volpe (11) fields a ground ball hit by third baseman Alex Bregman (2) and throws to first for an out during the eighth inning at Yankee Stadium. Mandatory Credit: John Jones-Imagn Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Anthony Volpe Has Been Playing Through a Labrum Injury<\/h2>\n<h3>Season-Long Miscues<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In hindsight, it\u2019s obvious that <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/07\/11\/yankees-shortstop-anthony-volpe-slumping-again\/\" target=\"_self\">Volpe has not been playing at his best<\/a>. Though his offensive stats have been relatively similar to those from his first two seasons, his defensive stats have gotten drastically worse. Despite accumulating 14 outs above average (OAA) over his rookie and sophomore seasons, Volpe has been worth -9 OAA in 2025, also ranking second in all of MLB in errors (19) behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/d\/delacel01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-09-12_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Elly De La Cruz<\/a> (23).<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Anthony Volpe has been playing through a partial labrum tear, Aaron Boone said today. When the injury was initially MRI\u2019ed in May, the Yankees believed it was an old injury he could play through. He has reaggravated it a few times this year, most recently this past weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bryan Hoch \u26be\ufe0f (@BryanHoch) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BryanHoch\/status\/1966232835792289825?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 11, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unfortunately, this isn\u2019t the first time in recent memory that the Yankees have forced one of their players to play through an injury, when in reality they probably should\u2019ve let them recover properly. In May of 2023, the newly retired <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=rizzoan01,rizzo-006ant&amp;search=Anthony+Rizzo&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-09-12_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anthony Rizzo<\/a> collided with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/t\/tatisfe02.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-09-12_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fernando Tatis Jr.<\/a> at first base, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2023\/09\/13\/anthony-rizzo-placed-on-il\/\" target=\"_self\">leaving him out with a concussion for months<\/a>. Despite passing MLB\u2019s concussion protocol, Rizzo never looked the same after that injury and was subsequently out of baseball following last season.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Will He Keep Playing?<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Though Volpe has not been in the lineup since Tuesday against the Detroit Tigers, New York has made it clear that they want Volpe to continue playing. The Yankees have been <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/04\/24\/anthony-volpe-continues-struggling-offensively\/\" target=\"_self\">reluctant to bench Volpe<\/a> even as he has gone through tremendous struggles at the plate and in the field; this trend has only continued after manager <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/booneaa01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-09-12_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aaron Boone<\/a> stated that the young shortstop will continue to play through the injury.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Anthony Volpe&#8217;s most recent MRI showed \u201ca little bit more of a labrum tear,&#8221; according to Aaron Boone, &#8220;but nothing that we think is going to land him on the IL, or nothing that he can\u2019t continue to play through.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bryan Hoch \u26be\ufe0f (@BryanHoch) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BryanHoch\/status\/1966250938538324163?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 11, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, is this a good idea, especially <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/09\/10\/yankees-bullpen-could-be-downfall-postseason\/\" target=\"_self\">heading into the final stretch of the season<\/a> when the Yankees will be fighting to hold onto a spot in the postseason? Probably not. But, again, this wouldn&#8217;t be the first time that the Yankees have elected to aggravate a (young) player\u2019s nagging injury instead of letting them get back to 100%.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo Credit: Wendell Cruz-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday afternoon, MLB.com\u2019s Bryan Hoch reported that New York Yankees shortstop Anthony Volpe has been playing through injury, specifically a partially torn labrum. Volpe has been playing through the injury since making a diving effort against the Tampa Bay Rays on May 3. Hoch also confirmed that the 24-year-old received a cortisone shot over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5148,"featured_media":99644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1071,35],"tags":[1787,67,3461],"class_list":["post-107009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-yankees","category-mlb","category-news","tag-aaron-boone","tag-anthony-rizzo","tag-anthony-volpe"],"modified_by":"Lewis Masella, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107009"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107030,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107009\/revisions\/107030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}