Yankees decision to send Anthony Volpe to Triple-A actually has an impact on his contract

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There are some interesting ways to look at the New York Yankees' decision to option Anthony Volpe to Triple-A, and one of them isn't being discussed enough.

On the surface, this felt like a move the Yankees made because he hadn't been playing as well as they'd hoped over the past few years, and Jose Caballero was one of the better players on the roster to start the season.

However, it was also recently brought up that if the Yankees want to manipulate Volpe's free agency a bit, they can do just that.

“The Yankees can push Volpe’s free agency from 2028 to 2029 if he stays at least 20 days in the minor leagues. (Rehab assignments do not count toward that total.) But that does not seem to be the No. 1 factor the Yankees are weighing here. Instead, they appear to be signaling that, at this moment, Volpe does not give them the best chance to win,” Chris Kirschner of The Athletic wrote.