When the Yankees tabbed Anthony Volpe as their starting shortstop after he decisively won the spring training battle, they made their intentions clear.

“He’s going to get a long shot,” general manager Brian Cashman said on March 27. “He knows, for better or for worse, we’re committed to letting him handle that position.”

Hal Steinbrenner also sat down with Volpe at the end of camp and delivered a similar message.

“I told him, ‘You are our starting shortstop for 2023. This is not a trial. It’s going to be that way through the ups and the potential downs,’ ” Steinbrenner said on May 16 on The Post’s “The Show with Joel Sherman and Jon Heyman” podcast.

Nearly two and a half months into the season, which has included a fair share of struggles for Volpe in addition to some bright spots, the Yankees are sticking to their plan.

Steinbrenner said on Tuesday at the MLB owners’ meetings that there has been no talk about sending Volpe to Triple-A for a reset.

“I’ve had zero conversations about that,” Steinbrenner said. “I think defensively he’s been pretty solid. Pitchers have adjusted to him now. He’s going to have some adjustments to make himself. I don’t think any of this is out of the ordinary. I told Anthony at the end of spring training, ‘You are the starting shortstop of the New York Yankees. This isn’t a three-week trial.’ So [he’s] going to be that, through the ups and downs.”

The 22-year-old Volpe entered Tuesday’s Subway Series batting .186 with nine home runs and a .605 OPS in 67 games.

After a solid first month in the big leagues, his strikeout rate has increased and his walk rate has decreased, leading to some questions about whether Volpe might be better served getting his rhythm back with a stint at Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre — especially with shortstop Oswald Peraza tearing it up there.

But the Yankees believe that allowing Volpe to work through the growing pains at the major league level will serve him well in the long run.

“My feel and my belief in Anthony is that the cream is going to rise to the top,” manager Aaron Boone said before Volpe hit ninth against Max Scherzer. “I believe in his ability and the person that he’s going to be an outstanding player in this game. We’ve seen signs of that already all year. He’s had his fair share of struggles, but he’s also been in the middle of a lot of winning and having a role in that.

“When we made the decision to go with Anthony at the start of the season, it wasn’t that we thought he was just going to light the world on fire right away. We expected that there’d be some ups and downs. But one of the things we’re betting on is the person, too, knowing he’d be able to handle some of the inevitable adversity.”

If the rest of the Yankees’ big-name bats at the top of the lineup were carrying their weight, especially in the absence of the injured Aaron Judge, Volpe’s struggles might not be as magnified.

But at a time when the Yankees have been starving for an offensive spark, the New Jersey product has been unable to deliver it.

While Boone admitted there are “adjustments to be made,” he believes that Volpe is capable of doing so.

“I continue to say, I totally believe Anthony will be just fine,” Boone said. “We just gotta keep working alongside him to get him to that place. There’s no doubt in my mind, going through these parts of your career will serve you well. Hopefully it serves him well for us as the season unfolds and we get to the back end of the season as well.”

— Additional reporting by Jon Heyman