DENVER — It appears like there might be a timetable for a possible return of Giancarlo Stanton to the New York Yankees‘ lineup.
Stanton, who has been on the injured record all season with proper and left elbow epicondylitis (generally referred to as tennis elbow), is scheduled to take dwell batting observe “for the subsequent two weeks,” based on Yankees basic supervisor Brian Cashman. Some type of a rehab task might come after that for the 35-year-old slugger.
Yankees supervisor Aaron Boone was requested about Stanton’s progress earlier than his staff took on the Colorado Rockies at Coors Area on Sunday.
“I really feel like G’s been doing effectively now for some time, so getting him constructed up will likely be simply the subsequent key,” Boone mentioned. “I feel dwell at-bats are on the horizon right here, and we’ll see the place we go from there.”
Boone mentioned he was not sure “precisely the way it was going to unfold” when it got here to a possible rehab task for Stanton, who’s in his eighth season within the Yankees group.
“We’ll determine what’s greatest,” Boone mentioned of any rehab task. “I simply wish to just remember to know he is sort of recreation prepared when he comes. Clearly that appears a bit bit totally different for him in that he isn’t enjoying the sector. However you continue to wish to get him constructed up correctly, and provides him considerably of like a spring coaching simulation, regardless that, once more, his seems totally different than most guys.”
Final season, Stanton slashed .233/.298/.475 with 27 homers and 72 RBI in 417 at-bats, all coming from the DH place. He additionally missed greater than a month with a left hamstring pressure.
Getting into what will likely be his sixteenth MLB season, Stanton has averaged 42 homers and 108 RBI per 162 video games throughout his illustrious profession, cut up between the Yankees and the Florida/Miami Marlins.
Along with his veteran standing, Stanton might refuse a rehab task to the minor leagues when he feels he is able to return to the New York lineup.
All quotations obtained firsthand except in any other case famous.
