Anthony Volpe’s game-tying house run Thursday in Detroit was far more than a clutch, regular-season blast.
The 22-year-old shortstop made historical past along with his three-run shot within the ninth inning, changing into the primary Yankee to hit 20 house runs and steal 20 bases in his rookie season.
Volpe, a former first-round select of New Jersey’s Delbarton School, is simply the 14th Yankee within the crew’s 121-year historical past to document a 20-20 season, and the fifteenth rookie in MLB historical past to take action.
“I never really had goals or anything like that going into the season, numbers-wise, but when you can put yourself in Yankees history, that’s pretty crazy,” Volpe said after the sport, which the Yankees misplaced, 4-3, in additional innings.
The spectacular feat places Volpe, who entered Friday with 21 stolen bases, in uncommon firm crammed with Hall of Famers, perennial All-Stars and fan favorites.
Brett Gardner was the final Yankee to hitch the 20-20 membership, having achieved so in 2017. Alex Rodriguez is the one participant in crew historical past to realize the milestone thrice, together with throughout his American League MVP seasons in 2005 and 2007.
Derek Jeter, Alfonso Soriano and Rickey Henderson every put up two 20-20 seasons apiece. Soriano notably hit 18 house runs and stole 43 stolen bases throughout his rookie marketing campaign in 2001. He and Rodriguez are among the many 4 gamers in MLB historical past to publish 40-40 seasons.
Mickey Mantle turned the primary Yankee to enter the 20-20 membership in 1959. The different Yankees to take action since embody Roy White, Bobby Bonds, Roberto Kelly, Paul O’Neill, Johnny Damon, Bobby Abreu and Curtis Granderson.
Volpe is the second rookie to publish a 20-20 marketing campaign this season, becoming a member of Arizona’s Corbin Carroll, who entered Friday with 23 house runs and 41 stolen bases.
Kansas City’s Bobby Witt Jr. and Seattle’s Julio Rodríguez joined the 20-20 membership as rookies final season, whereas Tampa Bay’s Randy Arozarena did the identical with precisely 20 house runs and 20 stolen bases in 2021.
In 1966, the White Sox’s Tommie Agee turned the primary rookie to document a 20-20 season. The feat wouldn’t be replicated for greater than a decade, with Oakland’s Mitchell Page the subsequent to take action in 1977. Devon White of the Angels and Ellis Burks of the Red Sox each did it in 1987.
The rookie milestone turned extra frequent throughout the Nineties, when Minnesota’s Marty Cordova, Boston’s Nomar Garciaparra and Kansas City’s Carlos Beltrán every achieved it. Arizona’s Chris Young, the Angels’ Mike Trout and Boston’s Andrew Benintendi are the others to publish 20-20 seasons as rookies within the years since.
Trout stays the one rookie to document a 30-30 season. The three-time AL MVP slugged 30 homers and swiped 49 bases as a 21-year-old in 2012.
Volpe — who entered Friday batting .219 with 57 RBI and 53 runs scored — has one other month so as to add to his rookie stats.
“It’s pretty eye opening for a kid from Jersey that’s 22 years old and wins the job in spring [training] and goes out and does this,” Yankees supervisor Aaron Boone said.
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