TAMPA — Giancarlo Stanton’s October heroics grew to become much more spectacular Sunday when Aaron Boone disclosed that he was enjoying by an damage on the time.
The one drawback is that a couple of months later, the Yankees slugger remains to be coping with the difficulty and it’ll have him beginning spring coaching from behind.
Stanton has the equal of tennis elbow in each elbows, Boone mentioned on the day place gamers reported to camp to take their physicals, which may jeopardize his skill to begin the season on time.
“We want to make sure we’re giving that as much time [as it needs], so we’ll probably slow-play him a little bit,” Boone mentioned Sunday at Steinbrenner Subject. “I’m expecting him to be OK, it’s just a matter of when we want to start really rolling it out to give us the best chance to get as much of him as we can.”
Requested whether or not the damage may have an effect on Stanton’s availability for the beginning of the season, Boone mentioned it was “tough to say.”
“I’m not going to put any timeline on it,” Boone mentioned. “We’re going to be smart with it and listen to it.”
Boone mentioned Stanton handled the elbow points late final season and even in October, when the veteran DH put collectively a monster postseason by batting .273 with seven house runs and a 1.048 OPS in 14 video games.
The 35-year-old was then ramping up his exercise within the offseason earlier than shutting it down and getting remedy on his elbows.
“It’s just something we don’t want to rush,” Boone mentioned. “If we will get to a extremely great place – and know we’re most likely going to should take care of some upkeep on it all year long. However don’t wish to drive something too early.
“This is something that if we were full-bore in, we’d be grinding away probably. Just want to make sure we give it the proper time and give ourselves the best position throughout the year.”
Trent Grisham can be beginning camp a bit of behind after pulling a hamstring a couple of weeks in the past whereas coaching, Boone mentioned.
The outfielder was operating near full pace on Sunday however the Yankees won’t push him at this level.
