{"id":151939,"date":"2025-08-17T01:42:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T01:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/151939\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T01:42:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T01:42:40","slug":"giancarlo-stanton-out-of-lineup-again-in-yankees-worry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/151939\/","title":{"rendered":"Giancarlo Stanton out of lineup again in Yankees worry"},"content":{"rendered":"

ST. LOUIS \u2014 Giancarlo Stanton\u2019s three straight games playing the outfield have been followed by three straight days off.<\/p>\n

The Yankees veteran slugger was out of the lineup Saturday for a second straight game, following Thursday\u2019s team off-day, to give him more time to bounce back from the physical toll of playing the field on three consecutive days for the first time in over three years.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust a little tougher recovering after the last one [Wednesday],\u201d manager Aaron Boone said before Saturday\u2019s game at Busch Stadium. \u201cAnd then being here [with a spacious right field]. So we\u2019ll see. We\u2019ll see if [Sunday\u2019s] an option or not.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"GiancarloGiancarlo Stanton picks up a ball during the Yankees\u2019 Aug. 9 game against the Astros. AP<\/p>\n

Boone indicated the issue was with Stanton\u2019s lower body, where he has had multiple soft-tissue injuries over the years, rather than his elbows as he plays through the equivalent of tennis elbow in both arms.<\/p>\n

The Yankees started playing Stanton in the field again last Saturday as a way to get his bat into the lineup with Aaron Judge currently limited to DH duties as he recovers from a right elbow flexor strain. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\"GiancarloGiancarlo Stanton warms up before the Yankees\u2019 Aug. 8 game. Charles Wenzelberg<\/p>\n

Judge has thrown as far as 150 feet in his throwing progression, but there are no indications that his return to right field is imminent.<\/p>\n

So until then, the Yankees will be faced with the daily question of whether Stanton is feeling healthy enough to play the outfield so they can benefit from his bat<\/a> or whether he will be limited to pinch-hitting.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want to scrap him [in the outfield altogether],\u201d Boone said. \u201cBut trying to be mindful and careful and smart about it too. And to his credit, he and I talk closely about it and even going into it, \u2018If we have any issues, let\u2019s get out in front of things as best we can.\u2019 We\u2019ll just see. I\u2019m kind of taking it day by day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Boone said Stanton was getting ready to pinch hit in the late innings Friday night, which went \u201ceven better than he expected,\u201d though he did not ultimately enter the game.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\tThank you\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s anything big,\u201d Boone said, mostly chalking it up to the initial soreness of doing something you have not done in a while. \u201cIt\u2019s like spring training. It\u2019s why we play them four and five innings to start and days off. You\u2019re building that bandwidth, so to speak. Like a marathon runner, you don\u2019t sit on the couch for three weeks and rest up and then go run the marathon. You\u2019ve got to train for it. So it\u2019s partly that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jos\u00e9 Caballero started in right field for the second straight game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. LOUIS \u2014 Giancarlo Stanton\u2019s three straight games playing the outfield have been followed by three straight days…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":151940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,10626,1266,405,403,2228,5226,5225,5228,5227,62,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-151939","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-giancarlo-stanton","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-new-york-yankees","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115041569771965726","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}