Anthony Volpe New York Yankees Autographed Signed Rawlings Official Major League Baseball – Fanatics

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Anthony Volpe is an American professional baseball shortstop for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB). The Yankees selected Volpe in the first round of the 2019 MLB draft. He made his MLB debut in 2023, winning the American League Gold Glove Award at shortstop in his rookie year.

Volpe attended Delbarton School in Morristown, New Jersey, where he played for the school’s baseball team and was a teammate of Jack Leiter, who is an MLB pitcher. As a senior, he batted .488 with seven home runs, 34 runs batted in (RBIs), and 17 stolen bases. He was named the 2019 New Jersey High School Player of the Year by Perfect Game. Volpe committed to play college baseball at Vanderbilt University.

In 2023, the Yankees invited Volpe to spring training as a non-roster player, where he competed with Oswald Peraza for the starting shortstop role. On March 26th, 2023, the Yankees announced that Volpe had earned a spot on the team’s Opening Day roster as the starting shortstop. He recorded his first major league hit in the second game of the season on April 1st. On April 14, he hit his first major league home run. On May 10th, 2023, he hit his first career grand slam. He became the Yankees’ first rookie shortstop to hit a grand slam. On May 13th, he set a record as the first player in Yankees history to steal his first 13 career bases without being caught. On May 23th, Volpe had his first walk-off plate appearance when he hit a sac fly to drive in the winning run against the Baltimore Orioles.

Volpe became the 15th MLB rookie to record both 20 home runs and 20 stolen bases in the same season. However, his .283 on-base percentage was the worst among qualified MLB players and his strikeout rate was 13th worst in the league. He finished his rookie season with a .209 batting average, .666 OPS, 21 home runs, 60 RBIs, 24 stolen bases, and 23 doubles. He received a single vote in American League Rookie of the Year voting, finishing in eighth place. He won the AL Gold Glove Award at shortstop, becoming the first Yankee rookie to win the award.

Volpe worked to improve his offense in the offseason, leveling his swing to improve his bat control in the upper part of the zone. He quickly improved his offensive profile to start the 2024 season, cutting his strikeout rate in half while increasing his walk rate and on-base percentage through the first two months of play. On April 1st, 2024, he recorded his first four-hit game. In May, he recorded a 21-game hitting streak, the longest by a Yankees player in over a decade. The streak cemented his role as the team’s regular lead-off hitter through the first half of the season. He was moved down in the lineup in July following a long offensive slump. He finished the regular season with a .243 batting average, .657 OPS, 12 home runs, 60 RBI, and 28 stolen bases.

In his first postseason, Volpe recorded a .287 batting average and .815 OPS with five stolen bases. In Game 4 of the 2024 World Series, he hit a grand slam, becoming the first player with four RBIs and two stolen bases in a World Series game.

The featured Rawlings Official Major League Baseball has been signed by Anthony Volpe in blue. The Baseball includes an official Fanatics hologram for authenticity purposes.