Yankees’ Anthony Volpe gets timeline update after offseason surgery

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The New York Yankees have been banged up with injuries to start the 2026 campaign, though they can't make any excuses for what they've done on both sides of the baseball. The Yankees are still a good enough team to win games at a high level and haven't been that bad at the end of the day.

New York is currently 10-9 and only 1.5 games behind the first-place Tampa Bay Rays in the American League East.

Young shortstop Anthony Volpe is one of the injuries the Yankees have been dealing with. Some fans might not want Volpe on the roster or starting at shortstop, but the reality is that the young man is the starting shortstop for the Yankees, and fans need to get used to that right now.

In Volpe's defense, it isn't exactly like the guys behind him, who had a chance to show a lot, did a bunch. Volpe deserves to be the shortstop right now and will be. The only question remaining is when he will return, and the latest report suggests that it could be at the end of the month.

“Based on that schedule, Volpe could return to the Yanks’ lineup by the last week of April, or the first week of May, but he’s not focused on a particular date,” Pete Caldera of NJ.com wrote.

The important part here is that Volpe seems to be doing well in his recovery. Prior to his shoulder injury last season, he was actually having a decent year. I think that if everything goes well, we could see a nice bounce back from the former New Jersey high school star.