TAMPA, Fla. — Shortly after the Yankees’ Sunday spring training game against the Blue Jays, the team’s shot-callers asked Anthony Volpe to stick around. He swears it’s the only time he’s felt his heart beat all spring.
Volpe, who has insisted that he hasn’t allowed the Yankees’ shortstop competition with Oswald Peraza to consume him, finally received the official verdict: he made the Bombers’ Opening Day roster.
“Being able to compete helped me take my mind off everything that I really couldn’t control,” Volpe said moments after Aaron Boone delivered the life-changing news. “But for it all to come to fruition like this is pretty crazy.
