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Yankees accidentally reveal shoulder injury has probably been affecting Anthony Volpe

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If I were Anthony Volpe — and I'm not! — I'd probably wish that I hadn't played through pain for four months, eroding the reputation I'd built up along the way and becoming the villain in every Yankees fan's tale about how the season turned sour. I'd probably be thinking every day and night about how I would've been better off with rest and recovery rather than playing the toughest sport in the world with a torn labrum. I'd probably wish that, every time my manager was asked if my pain was a factor in my struggles, he would've said, "Yes.