It started as conversation among the Yankees’ players last season and intensified as the year went along. The motivators were the power hitters.
. Those were the homegrown trio of Oswaldo Cabrera, Oswald Peraza and Anthony Volpe, who are 24, 23 and 22 years old, repectively. They are the Yankees’ best chance to tighten up an already strong defense further and provide a larger buffet on offense.
Peraza did not sulk when Volpe won the shortstop job in spring training. He reported immediately to minor league camp , made more strong impressions and has been terrific on both sides of the ball since his promotion last Monday. He singled Saturday with two outs in the eighth inning of a scoreless game. And Volpe was not cowed by his early big strikeout. He followed Peraza’s hit with his second major league home run — his first into the short right-field porch and his first curtain call.
Anthony Volpe and Oswald Peraza have impressed as energetic, enthusiastic and have shown a tough-mindedness.Cabrera shows signs of breaking out on offense, but even while he struggled hitting, he kept flipping around the diamond and playing well everywhere. It moved Gerrit Cole to say, “I am in awe of a player who can move anywhere on the field and play defense the way he does.”
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