Anthony Volpe’s offseason is already showing a very different side of life after the Yankees’ October collapse.
The infielder, who was at the center of New York’s final playoff game, surfaced this week in a much lighter setting thanks to a social media post from his girlfriend, model Elle Jowett. The video showed Volpe joining her for an infrared Pilates workout in New York on Wednesday, then heading to 12 Matcha afterward. In one clip, he looked locked in before class; in another, he gave a thumbs-up when it was over.
Jowett made the joke plain in her caption: “Forcing my boyfriend to have a girl morning,” she wrote.
She followed that up with another small note from the morning, posting beside Volpe’s reaction: “He’s happy now,” Jowett wrote.
The post offered a rare, casual look at Volpe away from the Yankees’ clubhouse and the noise that followed their abrupt exit. It also stood in sharp contrast to the final image of his season, when a ball he believed had tied the game instead became a run-scoring double after a replay review.
That moment came in Game 3 of the American League Division Series on Oct. 7, when the Yankees lost 4-3 at Yankee Stadium and were swept by the Tampa Bay Rays. With two outs in the sixth inning, Volpe drove a ball toward left field that initially looked like a two-run homer. Officials ruled that a spectator had reached over the wall and interfered with the play, leaving New York trailing by a run.
Major League Baseball ruled that the ball would neither have left the field nor been caught, and Volpe was credited with an RBI double instead. Spencer Jones struck out to end the inning, and the Yankees never scored again.
Volpe finished that game with two hits in four at-bats and one RBI. For the series, his postseason line was three hits in seven at-bats.
The ending added another layer to a season that had already been unusual for the 25-year-old infielder. According to Baseball-Reference’s defensive records, he appeared in 70 regular-season games across shortstop, second base and third base. His regular-season numbers, per MLB’s player statistics, were a .245 average with two home runs, 28 RBIs and 12 stolen bases in 220 at-bats.
The Yankees’ playoff run had already been under the microscope before the final controversy at the wall. Aaron Boone’s club committed four errors in Game 2, and the series closed with a new kind of debate attached to Volpe’s drive down the left-field line.
Outside the field, though, the first public glimpse of his offseason came with a much softer edge. Volpe and Jowett were also seen together at the Willow Gala in Greenwich, Connecticut, in September 2025, an event that supported the Carlos Rodon Foundation. Jowett also has a business tie to the Yankees’ wider circle through a baby care venture with Chase Carter Bellinger, wife of Yankees outfielder Cody Bellinger.
For now, the baseball side waits. The social media side just showed Volpe starting his winter with a Pilates mat, a matcha stop, and a thumbs-up.
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