The Yankees announced that slugger Giancarlo Stanton has been placed on the 10-day injured list due to a left quad strain. Stanton’s placement is retroactive to May 14. Right-hander Albert Abreu has been called up to take Stanton’s spot on the active roster.
The specter of Stanton hitting the IL is an ominous one for the Yankees and their fans, given how the 31-year-old has so often been sidelined by injuries throughout his career as a whole, and particularly his tenure in the Bronx. A variety of leg injuries (and a biceps strain) limited Stanton to only 18 games in 2019 and 23 games in 2020, which led the Yankees to make Stanton into a full-time designated hitter prior to last season.
While New York’s lineup as a whole hasn’t lived up to its usual standard, Stanton has been a major bright spot, hitting .282/.347/.534 with nine home runs over 144 plate appearances. Despite all the injuries, Stanton has always been a very dangerous bat when he has been able to play, which naturally only adds to the concern over this MVP-level hitter seemingly being unable to stay on the field.
The severity of Stanton’s quad strain isn’t yet known. Given his track record, it’s probably safe to predict that the Yankees will hold Stanton out beyond the 10-day minimum just to be completely sure that this injury won’t linger (and result in another extended absence).
There is no way to really replace Stanton’s offensive contributions, of course, but the Yankees could now rotate a few players through the DH spot. Rougned Odor is expected back from the injured list relatively soon, to add to the position player mix. Speculatively, the absence of Stanton (not to mention Aaron Hicks and Gleyber Torres) could open up some playing time for Miguel Andujar, as the former Rookie Of The Year candidate has been lacking in consistent playing time since his own injury-ruined season in 2019.
Anyone surprised?
Imagine if he had to play the field!
Can peanut brittle junior be far behind?!
Not too too far.
The good thing is knowing…’well the Pirates always exist for plucking”.
Methinks you should sign Plunko. And Moran.
Grab em all Yankees. Bargain basement players!
They can maybe last…a week? Until Mikey comes back again…and then go out again…and then ta can always sign “Rob Macowiak” or Garret Jones or someone.
Hey…Buccos are there and ready to FEED ya…when Mikey Stanty goes down with his “random mystery injury”…again.
And again.
And again.
And…
Again
Hey General Mills, love your Rice Krispies cereal!
Snap = Stanton
Crackle = Judge
Pop = Hicks
Problem is we left them in the milk too long & they got soggy
Yes, I am!
I mean, he got in almost 150 PA this time. That’s amazing
Cal Ripken’s streak is safe with him.
It should be called the Stanton list instead of the injured list.
He’s injured? I am shocked.
Made of glass!!
Sometimes glass doesn’t break.
It just strains?
Fat RIP
Shocked!
Maybe he would be a great umpire because he is at least doing things consistently.
See you in late September.
Need more yoga.
Yoga does nothing.
It probably got a few fans to buy in on believing Judge and Stanton would stay healthy for a full season.
Judge also. Really see those super muscular guys go down so often with muscle problems. Would think they would learn by now not to jack themselves up so much.
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I see what you did there. Well done!
Settle down Reese
He swung a big stick in a Dollar Tree parking lot. Idiocy of legend.
I wonder what numbers a non injury-prone Stanton would put up.
Probably alot like his MVP season with the Marlins.
I could see that. I could also see a combination of that and his first season with the yanks.
Agree. Dude can still rake, he just can’t stay on the field enough to show it.
If he averaged 145 games played per season in his career I imagine that he would be approaching 500 homers right about now.
It only took a month!!!
How much longer is this glass dudes contract anyway?
Signed thru 2027, 13 yrs/$325M
AAV for NY is about $22 mill per
I’m not a Yankees expert, but it appears they cannot carry Stanton and Judge together indefinitely.
Would some team trade for Stanton if the Yankees eat half the $22 million? Seems like Stanton is a good bet for some team at $11 million/year and the trade frees up limited salary space for the Yankees to sign Judge.
Is this kind of scenario remotely feasible or is Stanton untouchable even if the Yankees eat a portion of his salary?
They most likely will. I’m not sure even Hal wants to deal with the PR nightmare of Judge signing a reasonable deal elsewhere and producing.
As a couch GM I can’t see any team willing to trade for Stanton even at $11 mill for the next 6 years. For starters he is oft injured and now can only DH due to being made of glass. Now you also have to factor in his age, while he is still young, he is 31 and will be 37 at the end of his contract. Are teams willing to take a risk that 31 year old oft injured outfielder who is limited to the DH role going to live up to his expectations for the next 6 years?
Giancarlo Stanton is a Yankee for 7 more years. He’s the only player with contract that even the Tigers wouldn’t take for Miguel Cabrera.
Don’t under/over estimate biG Al.
@Angels & NL West- I feel like someone would take a gamble on Stanton at 11m. He can hit, he just can’t stay healthy. Maybe some team out there with supreme confidence in their training staff? Even if you only get him on the field for 100 games, it doesn’t take a lot to generate 11m worth of value.
I could also see a scenario if the Yanks attached a good prospect that a rebuilding club might take him on in one of those buy-a-prospect deals. It’d probably take a quality prospect, however.
What team is dumb enough to pay an often injured DH only $11 million for half a season?
I think he is the next Pujols or Miggy.
What foes a half season have to do with anything? Hes under contract for around 6 more seasons. The original comment mentioned if Yankees could trade him eating half the contract. AAV of his contract is $22 million. So $11 million per season for 6 yrs under the scenario mentioned.
Sad but True.
Te $22M calculation is correct, but only for AAV purposes. I believe that the cash out of pocket is $26.5M per year, assuming they pay out the $10M buyout in his last year.
a lot of teams (especially losing teams) would pick up stanton because of his name and he puts a’s in the seat. when healthy stanton is one of the best hitters but the big question is is when he is healthy.
What do the Yankees do with Judge?
He is Stanton 2.0 with the injuries…id be shocked if he is offered a mega long term deal
American Family Field
What’s the point of spending all the time developing nice tone muscle mass if you’re just going to pull something every other week?
$325 million. Sorry, you said what’s the point, so I guess $0.325 Billion. Plus marketing opportunities.
Maybe the AL should have pitchers hit… Can’t have players that DH get hurt…
LOL! This is a great post!
Stanton has now spent time on the DL in 8 of the last 10 seasons. Straight up glass.
Of course. Disappointed but not surprised.
Who had May 17 in the pool?
Again?
This guy on the “DL” more than Mario Van Peebles.
Is there ever a year that goes by…where “Baby Cakes Stanton” here is NOT missing HALF of it for some “injury”?
Will grant him the “hit in the face” thing a (what is that now? 6 years ago?)…(even though a real man named DAVE PARKER…played w a Hockey Mask) after his face was all broken. (Just sayin’)
Glad the Yankees are paying Mike’s salary here.
Cause ANY OTHER team (by now) would have said…”hey Mikey…for a (supposed) tough ball player? You are kind of an “oft injured lamer”.
Again. Yankees can afford it.
So sign em all I guess.
I hear tell that Marc Lemongello wants a comeback too.
Maybe HE can throw “1 game” for ya and spend the next 6 weeks on the DownLow list too?
The Mario Van Peebles reference wins for me. You went way back for that, I had to google him because I forgot what he looked like.
How much time does he spend in the weight room.. maybe cut back on the regimen of lifting and supplements? He’s huge anyway, what’s the difference if he hits the ball 400 ft instead of 480..
Nailed it! Well said.
Also…maybe Mikey could take the 5 MONTHS he has OFF (all off-season) and condition his body for the “extreme rigors” (lol) of “being a DH” (where one “plays” a total of about 8 minutes a game) or as an OF (where one “truly plays about 17 minutes a game”? Rest of the time, they spend “standin round…shufflin their cup in the grass”.)
Am SO happy that the Yankees are paying Mike Stanton salary these days.
For if this were being paid…by the dreadfully-nonexistent Pirates? Lol. My team)…then we would have to have a seance to “exorcise the demons of Bob Nutting…AGAIN…for paying this guy Stanton…”who seems to go on the DL…about as often as the Pirates manage to WIN 2 games in a row”.
I feel your pain brother
ah yes, because it only adds distance to balls that’d already be home runs
What is even MORE intriguing in regards to ‘Saint Mikey the Stanton Savior”? Is that he is 31.
Has about 1200 hits and 321 HRs…and a .268 average. Lifetime.
(This guy…isnt even “Joe Adcock”. Sheesh. Hey Yankees. I love ya. But “Saint Mikey the Often-DL’d here? Is not even gonna make it to age 34).
Dump him off on Minnesota or the Pirates or Nationals…ASAP.
Cause this guy is more “injured” than a reality star drama queen.
Yeah because Minnesota, Pirates or any other team would trade for a guy owned $22 per year til 2027 and who is oft injured and can ONLY DH.
if staton agreed to a trade (i’m may be wrong on this but his ntc is still in effect after being traded to nyy) min or pit would pick him up on the fact his name sells tickets.
That’s ok. Ya got “Roughneck Odor” coming back.
Methinks ya better sign “The ToddFather” AND “Melky Cabrera” AND “Rickey Henderson” AND “Bartolo Colon” again, Yanks.
Yer gonna need em.
Cause your little babies making 25 to 30 mil a year…just can’t seem to “work out in the off-season” enough to last 40 games into a season.
Better sign Bartolo. ASAP. A scud missle couldn’t keep HIM off a diamond
It’s now or never time for Andujar
More like never.
Doubtful the Pirates would spend 22 dollars…on Steve Carlton (if he was cloned)…if that were possible.
But they MAY ‘trade the Yankees…Plunko and Anderson and Rich Rod and Moran and Frazier and EGon and Stallings and The superhot BallGirl down the RF Line…in 2026…when Mike Stanton is 36 and on one peg-leg”
Pirates are known to do that.
That’s a lot of hate for Stanton and the Pirates.
I am SHOCKED!
How many HR’s would he have IF he hadn’t spent so much time on the IL/DL?
I figure about 90-100
About 6 more
He is made of more balsa wood than Francisco Cervelli AND Jameson Taillon…combined.
Roberto Clemente and Mickey Mantle would say “suck it up, Butter cup” to him these days.
Today’s players? All wimps.
Oft injured multi (uber) millionaire scrubs.
They would not even bat .100 off Marichal, Gibson, or Spahn.
Babies. All of em.
Never seen so many quad injuries or is it just me. Wonder if the extra torture with ever swing is playing a i pop art in this. I don’t remember Roy Sievers (the walking man) being out with a bad quad.in the 50’s. lol
“The severity of Stanton’s quad strain isn’t yet known.”
When have the yankees ever told us anything to do with reality anyway? They are the New England Patriots of baseball. Successful yet shady all the time. I guess that’s better than being the Dallas Cowboys of baseball. Worst fans in pro sports. So they’ve got that.
If this clown show was happening to any other franchise, yankee fans would be standing in line to skewer the daylights out of that team.
Oh well, it’s a long season, who knows any more, it’s just becoming a crap shoot of massively paid athletes falling by the wayside. How is this good for the sport?
How is having a player get injured “shady” in any way, @whyhaze?
You’re not supposed to drink alcohol when you take your pills, bro.
“Shady”. Good heavens. While other teams are getting fined/penalized for a huge electronic sign stealing scandal. “Shady”.
Sure.
That all makes sense. Amirite?
My “shady” comment is strictly about the reporting of injuries.
I wouldn’t compare Brady’s football deflating with Cole’s foreign substance use.
I’m just talking about the un-informational nature of reporting injuries that both teams seem to employ. With the Patriots it makes sense to try to not let on and allow your next opponent to know what’s going on, but with the yankees it just sounds like they don’t know what they’re talking about.
It really isn’t shady at all. It just isn’t answering a question that piques your curiosity at the moment. Naturally, the grade of strain will determine the length of IL time. It’s not going to be a big secret. I believe you’re reading a bit too much into this one.
Pshaw.
C’mon, man. You are mired in a rather dubious take. Been there myself a time or two. Now it’s shady because “they don’t know what they’re talking about”?
Seems like ya bailed out midstream looking for a friendly portage.
Swing & a miss however.
I said it “sounds” like they don’t know what they’re talking about. I’m criticizing their communication. I feel like other teams are more forthcoming and informative about injuries than they are, but that’s just my opinion.
That’s right.
You just keep sliding those goal posts all over the field, bud.
When have the yankees ever told us anything to do with reality anyway?
I’m just talking about the un-informational nature of reporting injuries.
I said it “sounds” like they don’t know what they’re talking about. I’m criticizing their communication.
The goal posts haven’t moved at all and the lines are perfectly drawn. I said the same thing three times. Not wanting to hear it is what causes the wiggling. I get it, we’re fans, we don’t want to listen to what we don’t like to hear about our teams.
@ducky are the injuries to judge and staton because there “gym rats”. now i’m just an outside observer but it seems like them two are more worried about getting stronger than limber. imo in baseball you need to be both strong and limber.
@whyhayzee quick question did you ever stop and think that what the nyy reports on injuries is what there allowed to say. the feds have laws in place that you can only disclose so much info without a person’s consent or face harsh penalties for doing so.
Man.
I really wish I knew the answer to that. It’s essentially about a $35MM question at the moment.
that’s very true ducky i only asked you because your one of the few nyy fans that are objective towards your own team like me. tbh just like lad i think nyy will be on top of the div when it’s all said and done. i would say that about my birds but the brew just won’t go away even with the injuries, and imo injuries is what separates the contenders from the pretenders.
All these injuries league wide are definitely a bummer, @brodie.
Yanks overhauled their training staff after ’19. No idea if it’s helping or not. Ya know, I generally hold off on judging anything baseball related until the 50 game mark. But I don’t have to wait to acknowledge that injuries are way up.
So a little to early for me to say (guess?) yet who is really a legit contender or not.
@bucky imo (and i may be very wrong on this point) is a combo of a short season and “trying to be in the best shape of my life”. most machines are modeled after the human body, and what happens to a machine when you always run it the max all the time, they blow out. imo a lot of mlb players fall into this category, going 120% and they blow out early. i really think that more players need to take real time off in the offseason. i.e play golf or a jog, basically run them selves at 2k rpm or less in the off season then ramp up to 4k during the season.
Good point, patient privacy, I agree. But look at this:
The Mets’ injury woes continued this week, as the team announced Tuesday that top outfield prospect Pete Crow-Armstrong will undergo surgery on his right shoulder “for a GLAD lesion (glenoid labral articular disruption).” Crow-Armstrong, according to the Mets’ press release, underwent an MRI this week, which “revealed a tear of the labrum as well as injury to the articular cartilage of the shoulder.”
The yankees are never this informative or specific with their players, it’s mystery meat.
Maybe trying to throw a ball 100MPH and trying to hit home runs on a lot of your swings is unnatural movement. It seems like dozens and dozens of players are trying to do this when it used to be only a handful could.
Emil Zatopek once raced 100 quarter miles in one day. He’s also the only runner in history to win the 5K, 10K and marathon in the same Olympics. Every so often someone comes along who just breaks the mold. Problem is when everybody else starts trying to fit into that mold. It’s a recipe for disaster.
There’s so much damn money in fitness these days that everyone has to get on board and beat the crap out of themselves. I think these players are being led to the “promised land” by highly paid “experts” and as long as there’s occasional success they will be lining up out the door.
@whyhayzee look at the nhl they blanket every injury as either upper or lower body injury. i’m not going to blame teams “playing it close to the vest”, yes as a fan i want to know the injury. in a team perspective keeping injuries vague is an advantage, i.e if player x is your stud but is hurt you say he is ok to play even if he ain’t. it makes the opposition still have to game plan for player x. instead of “yeah we know player x ain’t playing so we’re going to play like this”.
Whyhazee is the type to draw a zig zag in the sand and then have the head scratching confidence to call it an objectively placed line.
How about the clown show in Detroit?
Al remembered where Bozo came from.
AT LEAST BOZO WAS PROFESSIONAL!
And darn good at it too!
Boring generic comment about Yankee contracts and player fragility.
This guy is a DH ….. a DH!!! Are we kidding ourselves?? A 30 million dollar DH that can’t stay on field and needs rest!!! Even arod played all the time till he was like 35… this guy is a complete joke
Jeter absolutely fleeced the Yankees with this trade….a $30 million/year DH who can’t stay on the field….at 31 he’s this fragile…can you imagine what he will be like in 3 years time…..and even then they have in through 2027….this makes the Elsbury signing look good in comparison…..and they’ll probably sign Judge to a HUGE multi-year contract with a no-trade also…..what another mistake that will be…another guy who you can count on for 60-80 games a year while the rest of the outfield is manned by part time scrubs and Hicks..UGH!
This Yankee team needs a definitive shake up given its current makeup….maybe Cashman does need to go along with Boone….. so that they can switch directions…..
I’ve been saying all along the Yankees need a major shakeup. The problem is the Yankees can’t get anything for most of they’re their players. Stanton, Sanchez, Hicks, Andujar, Judge, Wade etc. Cashman should be fired for getting Stanton instead of Yelich. If only he traded Frazier and Andujar for Cole 4 years ago. I hope Cashman has several sleepless nights.
So much doom & gloom.
Yet, the Yanks have won 5 straight series’. If not for a hard luck loss in Baltimore that would be 7 in a row.
We’ve leaped three teams in the division & lopped the sox lead in half.
Cole going tonight.
Get us off to a good start taking *another* series on the road.
This is a good team.
Every ballclub is banged up right now. The Dodgers – for example – were reduced to having to sign Pujols(!). Let that sink in.
This is another good Yankee squad that will – as usual – be playing in the postseason. Let’s hold off on the tear down, uh?
they’ll make the playoffs but they’re a little boring (entitled yankee fan complaint). i really miss didi, cc, and tanaka
Oh dear Lord are we boring.
& a tough style of baseball aesthetically. Sub par defense, K, K, K, BB, K, HR, K, K, K, BB, & a parade of relievers.
Borders on unwatchable, serious.
I’m going to set all time personal records for things like magazine articles read & flies tied during the games this year.
But, yeah.
I don’t think Pirates fans – for example – are going to feel all that much sympathy or whatever.
I can agree that their on-air personalities are pretty dry but I’ll take the performances of DJL, Cole, and Kluber. Miss those guys too.
This has been MLB’s style the past couple of years. Remember, batting average doesn’t matter. If you are able walk, homer and strikeout, you meet the newest requirements of a superstar. You either hit over the shift or nothing.. Wins don’t mean a thing for starters. The reason for that is starters can’t pitch long enough to qualify and if they do, most bullpens blow it.. Modern baseball, man it’s killing me. BTW, old school me still thinks analytics sucks.
Nothing like the Orioles and Tigers to bring out a little false confidence in a team. They desperately need to get Taillon going or else give the young guys a shot at the rotation, or else they aren’t going anywhere this year. That lineup is way to hit or miss to have A rotation of Cole and then a bunch of hope and pray bounce backs.
I truly hear where you are coming from, @Bird.
But TTO offense & deep bullpens are a tested & proven formula. That style has served the Yankees pretty well. Hasn’t resulted in a title but we are always in the hunt.
& being in the hunt is all that matters to the front office. It is no longer: “Championship or Bust!”. Rather as of ’18 it’s: “The playoffs are a crapshoot, bro”.
So in a very real sense it is working perfectly.
Very true, the system does work, but it has given me (can’t speak for others) THE MOST boring version of baseball I have ever experienced in my entire life. Age has gifted me a shorter attention span. With all the bullpen changes and poor hitting, I get annoyed and distracted and turn to my tabletop sports hobbies, which are still very entertaining to me. By the time I return, the real life game is over, so I simply check the box scores, which are more interesting than live baseball. Today’s hitters make Mickey Mantle and Reggie Jackson look like contact hitters. I guess this bird is just old and tired.
I get it.
It’s the “3 yards & a cloud of dust” version of baseball. Dullsville.
I’m a compulsive multitasker. So – in general – I watch/listen to baseball peripherally or while I have a couple other things going on. It’s pretty easy to follow the games now. Not a lot of action on the field.
I still love the Yanks & baseball.
But the game has certainly changed a lot.
I’d be hard pressed to say for the better, however.
top-down suppression of strategy is usually a bad idea but there are exceptions, such as the shot clock in college basketball saving us from “four corners” time killing. i’m torn about the idea, but banning the shift seems like the easiest and most impactful way to change all-or-nothing hitting approaches.
I agree. There is a lot of talent in the Bronx, and what real Yankee fan didn’t expect Giancarlo to go on the IL this year?
But their squad in Scranton isn’t that stacked, so I hope the rest stay healthy.
Agree the Yanks are playing well despite the injuries. They are definitely not the only team with injuries. Check out how many players the Jays have on the IL right now – enough to field a whole other team.
imo and this is just me if gm’s/pbo’s started valuing contact hitters more you will see a more exciting game. idc about the score what i wanna see is pressure situations i.e guy on 2nd that has wheels and a good contact hitter up knowing if he gets a knock that isn’t a hr the guy is scoring. i’m to young to see 80’s baseball but i watch them games on vid and there exciting because at any point a base hit could win the game. nowadays it’s unless you get more big flys than the other team it’s game over. i’m not going to lie the Philosophy of hr, walk, or k, makes for a very boring game. tbh i’d rather see a guy try and run out a hit than take 4 pitches and play station to station.
You throw Judge on the wire at his current salary of 10M, i guarantee you will have takers even with his injury history. He has half as many homeruns as the entire mets team. The others i agree with not much value currently on them.
Im curious why would you even throw Wade in there with that bunch though? Wade is your 26th man defensive replacement that every team keeps around for cheap depth or were you expecting him to hit 30+ hr 100+ rbis and start in the all start game like the rest on the list?. Thats like me throwing Jose Peraza or Gsellman of the mets on there. If anything just including that name will lower your argument more than if you left him off entirely.
Whoa guys, ease up a little. It’s frustrating for us all, but this is in no way Ellsbury. Stanton produces and is clutch. Frankly, if he goes out now, who cares, so long as he stays healthy in October.
Yankees have a great team and they’re playing the long game here. They keep saying that even the most minute aches (this is not that) they will proactively address to prevent long-term IL stints. The fact is, they’re concerned solely with being healthy in October, and that’s it.
Sanchez is struggling, but look at Higgy. He’s come through big-time. Cole is now the #1 pitcher in MLB, Kluber is returning to form, Judge is still a couple years away from FA, and we are have a slew of youth coming up in the next five years. For example, take a gander at Peraza if you haven’t watched him this year for the HVR. Dude is on fire.
@yc most nyy fans need to drink your kool-aid, yes nyy is hurt but so is most of bb. i have 2 reasons why nyy will be fine, 1 last year they basically played most of the season with there aaa team and was only a few games back of the division. secondly injuries and how you overcome them separates the pretenders from contenders, all teams have at some point will have a key guy get hurt and chip teams figure out how to overcome.
Remind me why Cashman is a genius.
Because smart guys who are afraid their own grey hair….shave their heads. Pure genius. Ask Bruce Willis…..
@mr. person because he figured out how to keep the nyy winning during a “rebuild” by no means is cash is free from fault, but nny can never do a full tear down the fans won’t allow it. so cash is in a sticky spot just like mo (cards pbo) and they have to rebuild/retool on the fly but still put a team worth watching on the field
Cashman has the highest payroll in the AL, second only to the Dodgers, and much of that money is allocated to a bodybuilder who apparently can’t run the bases without hurting himself; so even though DHing full-time, he ends up on the IL.
In 2019-2020, Hal paid him $35,629,630 to play a total of 41 games. What a bargain — only $869,015.37 per game. Nice day’s pay, that there.
And did they need a full-time DH? Nope.
But, hey — the Marlins will kick in $10M a year in 2026, 2027 and 2028, when he’s 36, 37 and 38 years old (his buyout year). That’ll help. They’ll just be on the hook then for $34M after he’s 36 years old.
You know, as Stanton was raking for a while there, I allowed myself to half-hope “Maybe … maybe he’ll stay healthy this year.”
Nuh-uh. Back on the IL, and no one can figure out how he got hurt.
I don’t hate the guy. I root for him when I have that occasional option. But Cashman got played.
Don’t worry, only 6 more years of this.
Exactly they will make the playoffs but they are very boring and predictable. A part of me hopes they don’t and realize someone (Cashman) takes the fall.
I feel bad because he was doing well, but, like so many, I wasn’t surprised. I am actually disappointed with the entire MLB and insane number of injuries this year.
I made a comment about this a few weeks ago. Thought it was only me! There are so many injuries that it makes you wonder what is going on. MLB messed up by going 162 games this season.
To think there are players being paid just for their name alone is nuts. Like Stanton! Millions of dollars for less than 100 games? I re read the article and he hasn’t played more than 50 games in 2 seasons. Yikes
I think it’s a culmination of a few things, but it certainly is self-induced. MLB has stylistically pigeon holed itself into the stat-based numbers to impress. As Chippers Jones said of launch angle, “I don’t care about launch angle. What, it’s going to make me hit a longer home run?” Reality is that many want exactly that – the Mantle 500-foot blasts.
Guys are throwing and swinging at 100% all game long, and it seems it’s catching up with them. You have an entire lineup of guys trying to do this, when in the past, you had three or four natural home run guys in your lineup, total. A big part of that is the shift takes away any possibility for some guys who would normally be high average to get hits, so they just try to jack homers. Last part is that the sport/fans look to the homerun as the only valuable offensive stat right now, hence the marked increase.
It’s only going to get worse, especially as managers, like Boone, proactively try to identify soreness and sit guys before injuries set in. The days of past are gone, and what they don’t realize is that regardless of how big Stanton is, or how muscular he looks, he simply will never be what the 5’10” Willie Mays was in homeruns, or any other offensive category. Which goes to my point – some people are built this way, it’s genetic, it’s natural, and it works for them, ie, Mantle, Mays, Joe D, Williams, etc. Others, are simply not.
At this point, the Yankees should just report when he is NOT on the injured list! He is a permanent fixture of the injured list roster
I know the outfield is riding thin but Clint Frazier, defense notwithstanding, needs to be sent down for a few weeks to re-tune his swing/plate approach.
It might be time for baseball to revisit its banned substance list and allow these players to take something that will allow them to heal faster and stay on the field. I’m not saying to allow steroids again, but there are some other non-performance enhancing (aka non-muscle building) substances that could help these players stay on the field. Heck, the majority of the supplements sold at GNC are on the banned list! Say what you will about baseball in the 90’s but at least the majority of stars stayed on the field and gave us the entertainment we were paying for.
He has a left quad strain after sneezing while sitting on the bench.
I bet he gets injured just by walking.
The Angels are now left without an overpaid player.
Perhaps Arte would be interested in taking on the proposed $11m per.
Trade Judge tonight while he’s healthy and maximize that return.
Time for Cashman to realize that although an amazing idea, the whole Twin Tower thing didn’t work.
Justin Upton is inked for 28 mill next yr
Also trade for and sign Trevor Story.
Trade Voit or Urshela or Gleybar , whoever nets the most return.
Left quad strain. Isn’t this what Ben Gay is used for?
I think Judges money ultimately goes to the pen that’s coincidentally all leaving the same yr (after 22 ) . They’ve just had too good of results not to double down on the 40+ mill pens this past decade. Cash loves dem Rps
They will get another star, and soon , but Id bet he’s left handed and plays a position of greater significance (SS/CF/3B) – I could totally see Seager next year with Yanks blowing past the tax and then letting Judge walk for 23
Seager? Great yet another injury plagued player. Pretty sure he’s right handed too..
I think he’s referring to Corey at SS who bats LH, as opposed to Kyle at 3B who bats RH. Both throw RH.
Kyle also bats left handed.
Lol
Just noting that the HOFer they gave up on, Refsnyder, went 4-4 last night……
I’m thinking MLBTR has a pre-written headline (and most of a story) written that begins “Yankees Place Giancarlo Stanton On 10-Day Injured List”
It’s more efficient that way.
Just another poor move by the “ Genius” Cashman. How does this clown have a job? Really 1 World Series on a roster he built. The rest were built by Bob Watson. Wow
Team is doomed this year as they won’t go over CBT threshold. They are getting older and will continue to get injured. A major shakeup is required as this team doesn’t have the makeup to succeed in the playoffs – if they even make the playoffs
Only plays when he wants to now that he has been paid.
The bottom line is that everyone is tradable….just depends on the right team, right timing and right price……the Yankees would have to pay dearly to more Stanton and most probably only have a chance to a California based team….excluding the Dodgers, that would leave the Angels and Padres.
Of course, this would involve a ton of money going to the team taking him, plus prospects, and he would have to wave that obscene no trade he has…..but there’s always a possibility!
Potentially clearing Stanton out, opens up multiple possibilities to re-construct the team using some of the current players while trading parts and acquiring other parts that help re-position the team to go beyond their current horizon of just being good enough to get to the playoffs, but ultimately no further.
The Yankee’s are on the cusp of a rebuild!! This is going to be long and quite painful. Farm system is empty!! How can you have Brian Cashman lead the rebuild after the offseason he just had???????
Not true….the farm system is not empty as they have been ranked about mid pack as far as prospects….and one thing we’ve all seen on this site, is you can never be sure what a particular team is looking for and how they feel they can correct or improve on a player they may have their eyes on…
Regarding long and painful….maybe but probably not….they’ve been in the thick of the playoffs as actual fans know for what seems to be forever without seeing them as WS champs….but nobody can argue that the current crew hasn’t/doesn’t have what it takes to make the playoffs….just that they can’t seem to win once they’re in them…..lots of other teams wish they were in the same dilemma!
As far as Cash…..maybe he isn’t the right guy for the rebuild…time will tell but it all starts with Steinbrenner and his money and patience….is he willing to spend, and has he lost his patience with coming close but never seeing the prize.
Yankees are the Red Sox from 3 years ago, sans the championships.
@very barry nyy can’t ever to a “full blown” rebuild, if nyy does do a rebuild your going to have more cut outs than fans and a lot of cancelled yes network subscription because why pay for a service if the am isn’t putting out a product worth watching. my last point nyy farm is pretty solid yeah it’s not the best but nyy farm last year kept the nyy afloat and into oct.
This is why I never use crystal weapons in adventure games
Why oh Why Jeter did you ever gift Stanton to the Yankees!?!
Can’t my Marlins do anything right?!?
We gave Stanton for nothing…except this young kid Jose Devers.
Can’t do anything right? They’re “only” paying $30M of the remaining $290M that was left on his deal when traded. And Stanton is always good to be on the IL yearly.
But they probably could’ve gotten better prospects from the Dodgers if they ate more money, but the whole point was to save.
Its called Sarcasm. At the time of the trade, Jeter was accused of making a sweet-heart deal for his former team.
Thank you @dennyd. I’m amazed that someone actually would have needed it explained. I guess some posters don’t know sarcasm or remember baseball discussions. LOL
I understand sarcasm but I don’t follow your discussions. So there’s no need to be condescending.
It’s not my discussion. It was mentioned everywhere…blog sites like this one…national media outlets like E!SPN, FOX Sports, MLB Network, etc. Seriously, the talk about Jeter “gifting” Stanton to his former team was everywhere. It was nearly impossible to miss for anyone watching baseball at the time.
I wasn’t questioning the “gifting” jab at Jeter. I do remember that interpretation well. It was more about you using it as sarcasm as I didn’t sense it. Based on your username, I thought you were a jilted fan who was tired of having your favorite team give away all-star caliber players.
It’s actually a “gifting” jab at the Yankees, other fan bases and the national media outlets that made/reported those statements/accusations about Jeter giving Stanton to the Yankees to help them out. As a Marlins fan, the educated part of our fan base was ignored when we stated that we were thrilled by the deal, while the only Marlins fans that were given voice was the small number of the emotional young ones that are still trying to learn the game, so they didn’t understand that the Stanton contract was a disaster before he even finished signing it.
Now, every single time that this whole thing goes as expected, on behalf of Marlins fans like myself that knew that that was a great trade for the Marlins, will come out to mock all the idiots that made or reported those “gifted” statements/accusations. I wasn’t a fan of Jeter or Michael Jordan during their playing days, but I stand behind what this ownership group has done, and have enjoyed seeing an actual plan in place for the first time since Dave Dombrowski was our GM. And I love the culture Jeter keeps talking about wanting to establish throughout the organization, and how he’s done what is needed for that (along with MJ in the background).
@Bird
I get it.
It’s the “3 yards & a cloud of dust” version of baseball. Dullsville.
I’m a compulsive multitasker. So – in general – I watch/listen to baseball peripherally or while I have a couple other things going on. It’s pretty easy to follow the games now. Not a lot of action on the field.
I still love the Yanks & baseball.
But the game has certainly changed a lot.
I’d be hard pressed to say for the better, however.
@ducky imo “moneyball” has ruined the game, don’t get me wrong i think advanced metrics are a good tool not the end all be all. bb executives need to start looking at a player as a whole with adv. metrics, traditional stats, eye test, and how there personality or play style mesh with your teams philosophy. imo what’s ruining the game is pbo’s are going after 1d players. finally i can’t say you guys were wrong in getting stanton (heck i wanted him as a card) and at the time staton was the piece you were missing, just like a lot of people say the nolan deal was dumb and i disagree (just like stanton) this year my birds would be fighting chc and the reds for 2nd instead of pushing a hurt mil team for first. just like a few years ago when nyy got staton nolan has given the birds a shot in the arm and some confidence in themselves that there a legit ws team. yes both players contracts are not going to age well but any pbo worth of having a job already figured that out and has already planed for the down years.
Mets MUST get Kris Bryant even if it costs 20 million, seriously!
Like they did when you guaranteed that they were getting Starling Marte from the Pirates; and last offseason, Trevor Bauer, JT Realmuto, and George Springer?
You are so lucky to have @MetsFan22 on this site, otherwise you’d be the one entertaining us all.
Brian Cashman is the most overrated GM in history…..With all the tools at his disposal he has basically failed this century.
2019: 120 Games
2020: 51 Games (out of 60)
2021: Stanton going on DL now.
Come on Guys thats not too bad. Not Great, but not terrible.
Oh wait . . . I combined Stanton and Judge’s games. That’s freakin’ terrible. Do they argue in the clubhouse over who’s turn it is?
“My turn on the DL”
“No my turn”
“No mine”
Imagine how few gams and much cheaper it would be if Jeter didn’t “gift” Stanton to the Yankees.
The only thing that’s more common than reading Stanton is on the IL? A day that ends with Y!
That darn Jeter and his “gifting” Stanton to the Yankees.
That’s the gift that keeps on giving…to us Marlins fans.
i think it’s funny everyone wants to bash jeter but we all forget he is the minority owner that is the face to help sell tickets.
MLBTRs needs to have a contest every year… What date will Giancarlo Stanton go on the IL?
That’s okay… that means more playing time for Frazier, right?
Remember when the stat men at MLBTRs said Frazier was about to break out? “SMASHING!”
MLBTRs needs to stick with reporting who gets waived and stop trying to predict the future.
You know that they’ll keep making predictions because, as long as @MetsFan22 and @Dan Hunter are making predictions on this site, the MLBTR team will not be the worst people making predictions on here.
LOL
Ya just know the Yankees want Plunko, Adam Frazier and Reynolds.
Pirates need to MAKE that deal.
3 pitchers back for those 3 and Yanks don’t gotta worry about “an outfielder on the DL anymore”. As The minute Stanton comes off it…Plunko goes on it. Then Plunko comes off it…Stanton can go back on it.
(At least Frazier stays on the diamond).
3 young arms. To Bucs for them 3.
Done deal
You can’t spell Giancarlo without IL
“Best Comment Award”
They need a big shift concerning their roster makeup. Teams that run and play defense like the Yankees never play in the world series. Ever. It won’t happen in-season but changes need to be made at the top in the offseason. Despite resources, Cashman simply is unable to assemble a well rounded roster and has always lacked the ability to draft future stars.