The Yankees have been sputtering since Aaron Judge went down with a toe injury early this month. One player helping to keep things from going completely off the rails is rookie shortstop Anthony Volpe—and he’s doing so with a little help from an Italian-American classic.
Volpe, MLB.com’s No. 5 prospect in baseball before this season, has struggled at the plate halfway through his first season in the majors, posting an underwhelming .203/.282/.368 slash line. But he’s turned things around of late, thanks in part to a realization he had during a get-together with some old teammates.
According to a June 14 story in the New York Daily News by Gary Phillips, Volpe invited some of his 2022 minor league teammates over to his house in New Jersey on the Yankees’ June 12 off day. The players “hung out, dined on chicken parm and reminisced while going over old at-bats,” Phillips wrote.
