DENVER — It feels like there may very well be a timetable for a possible return of Giancarlo Stanton to the New York Yankees‘ lineup.
Stanton, who has been on the injured listing all season with proper and left elbow epicondylitis (commonly known as tennis elbow), is scheduled to take reside batting apply “for the subsequent two weeks,” in accordance with Yankees common supervisor Brian Cashman. Some type of a rehab project may come after that for the 35-year-old slugger.
Yankees supervisor Aaron Boone was requested about Stanton’s progress earlier than his crew took on the Colorado Rockies at Coors Area on Sunday.
“I really feel like G’s been doing nicely now for some time, so getting him constructed up will probably be simply the subsequent key,” Boone mentioned. “I feel reside at-bats are on the horizon right here, and we’ll see the place we go from there.”
Boone mentioned he was uncertain “precisely the way it was going to unfold” when it got here to a possible rehab project for Stanton, who’s in his eighth season within the Yankees group.
“We’ll determine what’s greatest,” Boone mentioned of any rehab project. “I simply wish to just remember to know he is sort of recreation prepared when he comes. Clearly that appears a little bit bit completely different for him in that he is not enjoying the sphere. However you continue to wish to get him constructed up correctly, and provides him considerably of like a spring coaching simulation, despite the fact that, once more, his seems completely 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 strain.
Getting into what will probably 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.
Together with his veteran standing, Stanton could refuse a rehab project to the minor leagues when he feels he is able to return to the New York lineup.
All quotations obtained firsthand until in any other case famous.
