The Yankees have done what once would have been inconceivable, as the club on Sunday reinstated shortstop Anthony Volpe from the 10-day injured list, then optioned the former top prospect to Triple-A on the heels of his rehab assignment. While the move says less about Volpe’s future than you might think (more on that later), it’s nothing less than a stunning organizational about-face, given Yankee rhetoric from the past few years, as well as the trajectory Volpe himself seemed to be on. Once a top-10 prospect in all of baseball and the crown jewel of the Yankees’ farm system, Volpe spent one season at the Single-A level before jumping up to Double-A Somerset in 2022, where he flashed the leather and some pop in his bat to the tune of an .820 OPS and 44 stolen bases. The then-21-year-old made the briefest of pit stops at Triple-A—just 22 games—before he went on to beat out fellow top prospect Oswald Peraza for the starting shortstop job the following spring.…