With Aaron Boone and Brian Cashman hosting a postmortem press conference at Yankee Stadium on Thursday, the Bombers’ surgically repaired shortstop dominated the conversation.

Anthony Volpe, who underwent a left shoulder arthroscopic labral procedure on Tuesday after playing with a partially torn labrum for most of the 2025 season, will miss the start of spring training and begin the 2026 campaign on the injured list, Cashman said. The general manager hopes to have Volpe back sometime in April, though he mentioned May as a “worst-case scenario.”

“Somebody will be playing shortstop [that is] not him Opening Day, but that’s not a good thing for us either,” Cashman said. “I think missing him and not having him here as an option for us, there’s a problem. I’m looking forward to getting a fi

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