New York Yankees’ oft-sidelined masher Giancarlo Stanton could miss Opening Day, and there is concern about what has develop into an acute and painful tendinitis in each elbows.
The deep-seated soreness is a carryover from final season when Stanton was the first designated hitter. He hit 27 residence runs and had the Yanks’ third-highest wRC+ behind Aaron Decide and Juan Soto (minimal 250 plate appearances).Â
Because the 2024 ALCS MVP obtained remedy on Monday again in New York, Yankee Supervisor Aaron Boone stated there was “nothing imminent” involving Stanton’s instant plan.Â
Though he is performed in over 100 video games every of the previous 4 years, Stanton has missed 30 p.c of a doable 648 regular-season video games since 2021. Most 2025 projections have him in the same manufacturing situation to final season, the place he drove in 72 runs in 114 video games — good for a 115 OPS+, which measures a participant’s offensive efficiency by adjusting their on-base plus slugging (OPS) for league and park components.
With Juan Soto now throughout city in a special uniform, the Bombers will lean on newly acquired Cody Bellinger and hope Jasson “the Martian” Dominguez can begin trying like that phenom-esque prospect who arrived on the scene in 2023, like a Mike Tyson left-hook.
