Anthony Volpe wont start vs. Red Sox, but Yankees still believe in him for future

Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Greg Joyce about the inside buzz on the Yankees.BOSTON — In the short term, Anthony Volpe is not expected to start any games this weekend against the Red Sox because of the cortisone injection he received in his left shoulder on Wednesday.Then even once he is fully available, Volpe is far from guaranteed to go right back to starting at shortstop, especially as José Caballero gets an even longer runway to take hold of the job.As for beyond this year? Brian Cashman indicated Friday he still views the 24-year-old Volpe as the Yankees shortstop of the future.“Yeah, I think he’s a good player,” Cashman said at Fenway Park before the Yankees’ 4-1 win over the Red Sox.

“This year notwithstanding, he’s got a lot of abilities that are positive.He’s had a tough stretch, but I think he’s someone we can count on and we believe in.“But acknowledging at the same time, this isn’t the season we expected or he expected.

But that doesn’t change our viewpoint of what he’s capable of.I think he’s a really talented guy and I think he has a chance to be a positive impact on us.”Volpe has shown flashes of that at times over his first three years in the big leagues, but not consistently enough.

And he has taken steps back this season on both sides of the ball, as he entered the weekend batting .206 with a .661 OPS and defensive metrics that have regressed.Across 460 career games, he was batting .221 with a .661 OPS.Now the Yankees will have to determine just how much the partial labrum tear in his shoulder — which they discovered after he felt a pop diving for a ball on May 3 — affected his performance this season.

He played through it and then aggravated the injury Sunday on another diving play, which is what led to Wednesday’s cortisone shot that will take three to four days to recover from.“Clearly it’s something he’s been bothered by,” Cashman s...