MINNEAPOLIS — Before Sunday night’s loss to the Red Sox in Boston, Yankees manager Aaron Boone said he expected Anthony Volpe to be available starting on Monday when his club started a three-game series against the Twins.

But being available and being back in the starting lineup are two different things.

And for the sixth straight game, it was Jose Caballero at shortstop rather than Volpe, who has been dealing with an ailing shoulder but whose status as an everyday player, before the shoulder issue became public, had already been characterized as a “day-to-day” proposition by Boone.

“I expect Anthony to be a full player today, [Sunday] he was probably a limited player if I wanted him,” Boone said before Monday night’s game. “Today I kind of feel like, whatever role we need, he should be

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