It was one dinner that put Anthony Volpe on the path to be the Yankees’ starting shortstop this season.
since Jeter in 1996. Volpe won the job with a dazzling spring season that he punctuated Tuesday in Washington with another hit and two diving stops in the field.
When Yankees general manager Brian Cashman hired Hendry in 2012, he said of the former Cubs GM: “He’s as connected in the game as you can possibly be. Everybody loves this man.” “I wasn’t trying to sell the Yankees. Anthony and his family were Yankees fans way before I worked here. … And I couldn’t promise him that it was going to be us for sure, because we weren’t picking until 30.”“I just remember [the dinner] was my first introduction to the behind-the-scenes of the Yankees organization,” Volpe told The Post’s Greg Joyce in Washington. “To this day, what stuck out to me the most was how honest and how authentic Mr. Hendry was.
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