Brian Cashman got snippy with the media in the off season over his handling of Anthony Volpe already.

So there's already been painted this prism of he's already shown some cracks of failure.

The GM has gone out of his way to defend him.

This is our first go-around with Jason Dominguez.

Yeah, and I think Jason Dominguez was a he's going to learn on the fly.

He's likely going to be a platoon player. And he's got to earn those opportunities to play. Whereas Anthony Volpe was just thrust in. But he won the spring training job three years ago in fairness. And after that, it was his. Well, once he won the job, that was it. I actually don't think he won the job. I thought Parraza was better than him that year.

It was close, though, in spring.

Of course it was close, but it just, it's debatable. He was given the job, and it was his job. He was not platooning. He was not taking days off. No, he played every game. He played every single game. Yeah.

And so if all of a sudden in year three, you start benching him for performance, not injury, performance, then that says that they were wrong about him two years, the two years prior.

And they just weren't going to do that.

So you hurt your own argument by not telling us that he was hurt.

Yeah. I mean, making decisions based on ego is not the right way to go, to say the least. And I give Stern's credit, and we kill him a lot for the moves he made. Frankie Montas was pulled from the rotation. They just paid him $17 million. They could have easily said, we paid him $17 million. There was a lack of ego to say, okay, we were wrong about that. Let's pull him from the rotation.

Let's hear from Boone. Because I want to hear this out of his mouth. If you're just tuning in, they did announce that Anthony Volpe has been playing through a torn labrum. He had a cortisone shot today. He's not going on the I-L. He's still there, but he has been playing injured. So let's hear from the manager of the New York Yankees, Aaron Boone.

Aaron, there was a report in the post that Anthony Volpe had a cortisone

shot yesterday. Did that in fact happen? It did. It did. So I kind of walked the timeline.

I know Brian asked a question the other day. I did not know about Sunday where he kind of re-aggravated it on a dive.

So, like, my decision to not have him the lineup the other day had nothing to do with that.

This kind of information came later.

So the timeline of it is, obviously, he had the incident in May where, you know, he dove and, you know, hurt his shoulder a little bit, but felt it.

At that time, we MRI did.

He had a partial labrum tear that I think they felt like was an old injury.

And really, it was more just aggravating it and kind of probably more the swelling of it.

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