From Alex Smith:
Giancarlo Stanton is still yet to partake in any baseball activities at Yankees spring training in Tampa, and now the veteran is headed back to New York for further testing, according to multiple reports.
NJ.com’s Randy Miller was the first to report that Stanton was on his way back to New York to meet with the head of the Yankees’ medical team, Dr. Christopher Ahmad.
According to Miller, surgery “would be the last line of defense, but has so far not been seriously considered.”
Stanton, 35, has been dealing with what the club has referred to as tennis elbow in both of his elbows, which has kept him out of all baseball activities.
The 2017 NL MVP played through elbow issues in 2024, when he ended up slashing .233/.298/.475 with 27 homers and 72 RBI in 114 regular season games. Stanton’s numbers were much better in the playoffs, when he posed a 1.048 OPS with seven home runs and 16 RBI in 14 games.
At this point in his career, Stanton’s days of playing the outfield are behind him, as he didn’t appear at any of the outfield positions during the 2024 season. So as long as Stanton can swing the bat and run the bases, he theoretically could play through elbow discomfort, but testing will show if there’s a larger issue at hand.
Just sign JD Martinez, get him a full camp so that he is ready to go the full season. Martinez wasn’t awful last year, and he didn’t get much of a Spring Training. He also faded BIG time late in the season, so just hope that Stanton can return in September. Mark Canha, also, is intriguing because even in an off year for him last year, he still got on base at a strong clip.
The Yankees apparently will no longer play “New York, New York” after losses. They’ll rotate other Sinatra songs, with “That’s Life” to start. “That’s Life” is pretty much the PERFECT song choice, so they should probably just stick with that.
This is such a good idea I really don’t get how it took them this long to think of it.
I feel like by the ASB the official Sinatra song of the NYY is going to be Send in the Clowns.
Sic…they’re already here
I’m hoping for “I did it my way” after some classic base ruining.
I’d go with The Best Is Yet To Come, tho that would be a lie. Maybe when it was 96, it was a very good year.
Speaking of the Yankees in the 1990s, RIP Al Trautwig. He never got over MSG losing the Yankees.
Aaron Boone said in Fort Myers, via @DPLennon, that Stanton went to NY today for something that was “personal in nature” and was “not” related to the issue with his elbows. “I’m going to leave it at that for now,” Boone said.
https://x.com/eboland11/status/1894121007603999167
Assisted suicide, I guess?
Maybe he has a baby mama tucked away in a 40k per month apartment who’s not happy,
How much is Cody Bellinger’s rent?
Saw in SI that Verdugo is now the top FA bat still unsigned.
Emmanuel Berbari, 25, will be the Yankees postgame host for WFAN.
He will continue as the station’s fill-in play-by-player if Dave Sims has a day off.
Who dat?