BALTIMORE — They never took away Anthony Volpe’s locker.
Typically, if a player is jettisoned to the minors, their belongings go too. That’s standard protocol. For instance, when the Yankees optioned 2024 AL Rookie of the Year Luis Gil to Triple-A Scranton earlier this season, his sliver of clubhouse was cleaned out and reassigned to someone else. All the assorted baseball bric-a-brac in Gil’s locker was piled into duffel bags or cardboard boxes and sent with him to scenic Lackawanna County or put into storage.
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But Volpe, and his things, were given special treatment.
When the former top prospect and three-year big leaguer
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