The Yankees announced Tuesday that outfielder/designated hitter Giancarlo Stanton has been placed on the 10-day injured list due to tendonitis in his left Achilles. The move is retroactive to Sunday. Outfielder Tim Locastro is up from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre to take Stanton’s spot on the active roster.
Stanton, 32, was named the All-Star Game’s MVP after swatting a game-tying home run off Tony Gonsolin. He’s hitting .228/.309/.498 with 24 long balls on the season but has been an all-or-nothing hitter for the bulk of the summer. Stanton is just 23-for-138 dating back to June 1 (.167), but 13 of those 23 hits on which he’s connected have been home runs. He’s also plated 26 runs in that time, delivering several key hits despite a generally porous overall output at the plate.
With Stanton sidelined for a yet-to-be-determined period of time — the Yankees have not provided a potential timetable for his recovery — the Yankees can turn to hot-hitting Matt Carpenter for an increased role. Locastro, Aaron Hicks and Aaron Judge should see considerable run in the outfield, while struggling Joey Gallo may also see some increased opportunities to get back on track at the plate. At the same time, Stanton’s absence could further hasten the Yanks to pursue another bat that would push Gallo — whom they’re reportedly trying to trade — out of the picture entirely.
The 30-year-old Locastro is one of MLB’s fastest players and has a .256/.336/.414 batting line through 150 Triple-A plate appearances this season. He hit .240/.321/.480 in a tiny sample of 28 trips to the plate with the Yankees earlier this season but is an overall .232/.333/.337 hitter in parts of six Major League seasons.
There it is, surprised he lasted this long.
Agreed. It was only a matter of time for him and Judge.
Stanton has dealt with soft tissue injuries his whole career. Judge is just a lazy narrative for those who dont pay attention.
@LazingLeopard
For an apples to apples comparison, starting in 2018 (when Stanton arrived):
Judge has played 112, 102, 28, and 148 games. So he’s missed roughly 29% of total available games played. Assuming 5 games of standard time off per 162 and taking into account the covid-shortened season, he’s missed 139 games, or roughly 26% of available games played due to injury or excessive “rest” from what should be expected from a healthy player.
In that same span, Stanton has played 158, 18, 23, and 139 games. So he’s missed roughly 38% of total available games played. Assuming 5 games of standard time off per 162 and taking into account the covid-shortened season, he’s missed 191 games, or roughly 36% of available games played due to injury or excessive “rest” from what should be expected from healthy player.
That’s not a lazy narrative, just data for a biased, emotional homer to consider. Have a nice day!!!
You’re right: Judge is always getting his wrist broken by pitches and crashing hard into outfield walls.
Basically, there’s no difference between those and Stanton’s soft tissue injuries.
You really figured it out, buddy!
Heh! I loooove it when people win their point by presenting actual research! Great job, YCPIITB! (And to Jon: those are injuries too, are they not? You’ll call them “fluky”, I say plenty of players get hit in the wrist and crash into walls WITHOUT getting injured. Just because an injury has a cause doesn’t mean a player isn’t injury prone.)
‘And to Jon: those are injuries too, are they not? You’ll call them “fluky”, I say plenty of players get hit in the wrist and crash into walls WITHOUT getting injured. Just because an injury has a cause doesn’t mean a player isn’t injury prone.’
Not your best moment there, Cosmo.
Cheer up, Fink.
CHEER UP, Fink Ployed. Great band, bad take.
It’s funny how trolls don’t seem to realize how much they reveal about their own misery when they spew on the threads. Everybody else recognizes that that’s not the behavior of a happy, well-adjusted human being.
Seems like the wrong post to resort to personal insults, Fink. Plenty of posts for you to do that. This is just a frustrated response from a person having no penetrable retort to the data I posted above. By all means, refute my stance with your own data. Otherwise, kick rocks son!!!
You seem confused. My comment to you was in response to your repeated projection of your own misery onto me: e.g., “CHEER UP, Fink Ployed.”
That you might be fooling yourself, I have little doubt. You’re not fooling me, however.
BTW, what’s a “penetrable retort”?
Care to explain, Fink? Or are you just dropping judgements devoid of reasoning? I can only assume my opinion sailed over your head cuz I don’t generally see you here casually calling people trolls and implying folks are out of line when they clearly aren’t.
The confusion continues.
I didn’t call you a troll, Cosmo. I’ve never thought of you as one. I was responding to the inveterate troll You Can Put It In The Books, who in the past few days has routinely trolled articles about injured players, mocking their injuries.
I didn’t think your post was trollish at all. But I took exception to your logic; i.e., that getting drilled in the wrist or hitting a low wall with one’s ribs, as Judge did, equates to injury proneness to the same extent as Stanton hurting himself running the bases, which he’s done in the past. If Judge were as fragile as Stanton, the front office wouldn’t be letting him play center field.
Sorry, if you were confused by my reply to you or you thought my reply to the other poster was meant for you. I’m assuming you’re not the same person.
No confusion I’ve just never seen you call anyone a troll before and I’m not seeing any trollish behavior in this thread. Well, I guess I WAS confused by your lack of explanation in your criticism of my post. I get what you’re saying now, it’s just, they way you phrased it, without explanation, made it seem a bit like an attack. But that was obviously my misunderstanding, I do get your point now.
“I’m not seeing any trollish behavior in this thread.”
Scroll down to this one:
You Can Put It In The Books 4 hours ago
“More to come.”
‘Even MLBTR knows more injuries are coming haha’
Tried to respond to your post, it involved criticism of how this place has been run lately and now the post is up for review. Some very sensitive inmates are running this asylum these days.
I’m familiar with the syndrome, Cosmo. Been there, done that.
As long as you and I are good, good enough.
Enjoy the Subway Series. With German starting the second game, I expect you will.
Later.
Yea we’re definitely good. I enjoy your posts.
Geez, all these whiny babies.
Welp, I guess that’s the little stuff here and there Boone said was bothering him.
They need an outfielder. Ozuna is available!
Happ.
Given up on trading Duvall I see.
Kinda hard to trade someone on their last year and on the IL for the rest of the season.
I would say trade Acuna but the Yanks have nothing of worth.
I know, just poking fun
Gallo and Andujar.
For Ozuna?
Done deal. I’ll get AA on the line.
Dude you really like to make suggestions no one would ever do. Winning team-trade last year’s RBI champ. He’s hurt, now turn to the guy that got third in MVP voting two years ago when ATL NEEDS OFers. Try a “hot take” that makes some kinda sense will ya?
I bet even AA would laugh at your comment. I’m sure if there is a team thats comes calling for Ozuna, the Braves would not hesitant. No one cares about his 60 games #’s from 2020.
If people are still debating whether RBI’s matter, Duvall is a great example why that stat is useless and does not mean you are a good hitter.
Fine. My team will be happy to get the players who hit with runners on. Most players can’t do it. Its called “clutch”!
Go ahead. He is on the IL now. Call Cash and tell him to take his contract too. And why are you ignoring how terrible he has been this season and most of his career?
You are a type of person who would say (assuming Gallo was not with the Yanks), that Gallo would thrive hitting in a band-box in Yankee stadium and his poor stats will be improved in NY.
He probably can’t tell you what RBI stands for. Or GM for that matter.
Pretty sure AA cared. Seems like there are about 65 million reasons to back that up.
Clutch: it’s called a “myth”. The idea that talent level changes according to situation is laughable and has been disproven by research which found that the amount of “clutch” or “non-clutch” is the amount you’d expect due to randomness. You’d take a player based on when he gets his hits and you’d be fired the next day for going against all data and logic in favor of fan myth.
It’s also called a stat, Cosmo. At least at Fangraphs it is:
“Clutch (Clutch Score): The difference between a player’s totalWPA/pLI and their WPA/LI defined above.”
https://library.fangraphs.com/offense/offensive-statistics-list/
This is not to say I’m convinced of the value of that metric; but it is a metric.
It’s a stat that is useless for the purposes of evaluating talent or future production and thus useless for the points in this discussion. What’s with you today?
I can see you’re feeling attacked. Not my intention, I assure you. My bad for not expressing myself clearly, and I’ll own that.
Like I said, I’m not convinced of the stat’s value. But if it has no bearing on this discussion, then what’s it for? I mean, it must’ve been intended to convey something, or why bother to compose the metric at all?
BTW, for the record, Duvall ranked high in the metric last year:
https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=bat&lg=all&qual=y&type=3&season=2021&month=0&season1=2021&ind=0&team=0&rost=0&age=0&filter=&players=0&startdate=2021-01-01&enddate=2021-12-31&sort=12,d
Y do you keep saying that what makes you think that
If this guy could stay healthy he would have been just about at, or surpassed 500 homers by now.
Too bad timing wise. He crushes at Citi.
I’m guessing Ian Happ’s price just went up.
Hate to see anyone injured but hopefully the timing is fortuitous. This is a year to push all their chips to the middle of the table. Get Castillo, Happ and a bullpen arm.
@JoeSays,
Sign me up for that brother!!! I’d take the other Soto for my bullpen arm.(Gregory Soto of theTigers). Hopefully, there’s enough in the tank for all 3.
I don’t think something like this would change their direction unless they believe it’s season ending. More concerned about the loss of King and the general shape of the bullpen.
The Yankees were able to dominate the first half of the year because they were very healthy. They’ve had a number of injuries of late and it’s showing in their performance. 17-15 over the last month. They’ve built a nice cushion, but they need to add some pieces.
Getting another outfielder with a good bat shouldn’t be a change of direction, Rob. Not with the injury histories of Stanton, Judge and Hicks. They should’ve at least been thinking about adding somebody like Happ if they’re going to persist in stashing Florial in Scranton no matter how well he hits down there.
Lets not panic, im sure Gallo will pick up the slack haha.
I’m surprised they didn’t go with Andujar. Right handed batter, like Stanton, no worse in the OF, and may provide some pop. How deep in the doghouse is he?
You ever see a really old guy with super white teeth that are like oversized.. it’s Stanton at it
What?
He’s talking about veneers which is super common these days. Same for males getting hair transplants to correct receding hairlines.
I’m aware of the existence of dental veneers. What the hell does that have to do with Giancarlo Stanton? And what does “it’s Stanton at it” mean?
Huh?
“More to come.”
Even MLBTR knows more injuries are coming haha
A Mets fan talking about injuries. How many innings has deGrom played this year? How about Megill, Lucchesi, May, Reid-Foley, McCann?
Let him have fun Fink, he won’t be laughing when the Mets get passed by the Braves in the division and have to fight for a Wild Card spot.
Remember, only the Mets players getting injured count. Other teams don’t miss their injured players at all.
Your point being . . . ?
The LolMets are a joke
July 25th, personal best
This is his 2nd IL stint in 2022…
Making room on the roster for soto
Biggest free agent bust….when are teams going to learn about giving long term outrageous contracts.
The Yankees didn’t give him that contract, the foolish Marlins did. The Yanks just traded for him because he hit seven thousand home runs in 2017.
Loria wasn’t foolish. He knew he was selling the team and he backloaded the contract so he’d never have to pay the big annual salaries. And he got the taxpayers of Miami-Dade to buy him a new stadium. He was a world-class scammer
What’s the difference… Yankees still took his contract on
The difference is he wasn’t a free agent when the Yankees got him, and you called him the “biggest free agent bust.” The Marlins got an MVP season out of him at an economical annual salary before they palmed off his awful backloaded contract on Cashman. The fish had him for three years at a cost of only $30,050,000 after signing that contract.
He wasn’t a free agent. The Yankees traded for him when he was already under contract.
With the lowly-patrolled Marlins footing some of the bill.
They’re only paying $30M — $10M per year for the last three years of the contract, when his effectiveness will be even less. Can you imagine him flailing at fast balls when he’s 37?
Let’s not try to pretty up Cashman’s folly. It was a stupid trade for a DH they didn’t need. They got helped by the truncated 2020 season, but the contract is still bad. They’ve paid him $104.1M so far for 8.6 fWAR valued at $69.1M.
*payrolled
Who would you rather have on your team?
Giancarlo Stanton .228/.309/.498 24 HR $32M/yr.
Or
Christian Walker .205/.314./447 22 HR $2.6M 2 more yrs arb., Gold Glove 1b
Any 8 y.o. can play your game.
I assume since you can’t/won’t play my game, that your IQ is lower than that of an 8 yr. Old.
That is a low IQ assumption
By that logic, any adult who doesn’t play on the teeter-totter at the playground has an I.Q. lower than an 8-year-old.
I’m not sure that’s correct, scottaz.
That is higher IQ reasoning. 2 points for the Fink
Maybe now, before the trade deadline, they look at Florio or Andujar again. they won’t cost them anything in a trade.
I called this weeks ago. I should be a fortune teller, or forward thinking GM. The Yanks fall has started. Pitching is very iffy now and Judge will not get many good pitches to hit with no protection. Houston will have the best record in BB this year, and after trading for L. Castillo (somehow) they will acquire the Yankee killer they need. Judge is next for the DL as he will be forced to be more aggressive and get hurt. Next week or so. You heard it here first again!!
nailz#4lowlife
No one wants to pitch to Locastro. Theirs your lineup protection !
Right — because everyone wants to pitch to Carpenter, Rizzo and Torres.
Make sure to do your homework first kiddo
The Yankees need to get their act going and add some people to this team
Terrible acquisition before he even played his 1st game. Wouldn’t be surprised if they give the 32 year old JT Realmuto a big contract and watch him fall on his face. Also good chance of them signing Aaron Judge even though his next contract is almost guaranteed to be a disaster. Not a smart organization in terms of free agents and acquisitions in general.
Trade for Soto already. Hes a seasoned superstar at the age of a AA player. The overthinking and jigsaw workings for names like Benny and Happ is laughable.
Don’t want Soto.
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He looked completely off since returning from the All-Star Game, just as he seemed to be locking in right prior. Hopefully a short stay.
Open the vaults. Make the trades. Get it done. Now.
How was he an all-star again?
He was voted in by the fans. Same as every year.
Treatment. Achilles Tendinitis generally takes 6-8 weeks to improve and early activity on a healing tendon can result in a setback in recovery. Non-compliance can double the recovery time and can be very frustrating for patients.
– So, he’s taking a break to get rested for the playoffs in October. Nice of him to do that.
Chapman went on the IL with left Achilles tendinitis on May 24. He returned on July 2; so, yeah, six weeks in his case.
To all the Stanton bashers…
wRC+ 125
BABIP .240
Since his terrible 2018 season .701 OPS with RISP, he improved as a team player by taking more walks. If you want to bash the roster, start with Cashman giving SEVEN years to a mediocre hitter like Hicks. You all should bash Cash for extending Chapman for one year after he had the gall to threaten to opt out of his deal after he walked off a season. The Yankees are currently paying for that extended season right now. Chapman has been a waste of space this year.
Gian-softo missed 36% of available games played from 2018-2021. He deserves to be bashed.
Stanton has never posted more than 3 WAR in a season for the Yankees, other than 2018 when he posted 4 WAR (his average for the Yankees has been 2 WAR- his average for the Marlins was 5 WAR). His OPS has also been significantly worse than it was with Miami. He has been terrible and the writing was on the wall before he played his first game for the Yankees. However your point about Chapman (the same would apply to many other players) stands because Cashman is terrible in terms of free agents and acquisitions in general.
I hear Castellanos might be available. Just dont ask him any questions.
“He’s also plated 26 runs in that time, delivering several key hits despite a generally porous overall output at the plate.” Now I have heard of an infield having a “porous” defense, that makes sense, but a batter having a “porous” swing/output at the plate? Not so much.
Just a rich man’s Gallo this season. I can’t fathom where the offense would be without Judge.
Joey Gallo? Come on, man. Stanton has 61 RBI.
I could have predicted this easily. Nothing new really. Yankees should have sold high on him once he got off to a good start for a change but of course cashman does nothing. He will come back get hurt again and be back to do nothing in October as usual. One of the worst trades the Yankees ever made. Should have wised up when the Marlins were willing to give him away for peanuts. You would think that would send alarm bells off but the Yankees foolishly walked into that one. I wouldnt care if they would be willing to spend money elsewhere but they havent seemed to want to spend since bringing him in.
Who was going to take on his contract?
Boy, am I ever ready for computerized strike zones. Monty had Nimmo struck out twice before he finally flied out. With MLB in bed with the gambling industry, the look is twice as bad.
The fact is that Cashman isn’t a good GM. Almost any team with a massive payroll can throw together 90 win teams that don’t win championships. Cashman is approaching a decade and a half since the last team he put together won a championship, despite massive payrolls (often the biggest payroll in MLB) year after year after year after year. Bad signing after bad signing after bad signing on top of that. Cashman is just not a good GM.
Teams that are competitive without big payrolls are impressive. Teams that win the World Series regardless of payroll are impressive. Teams that have massive payrolls yet don’t win the World Series (especially 13 years and counting for the Yankees) are just boring and unimpressive.
Lol
It’s going to be impressive when Eppler wins a WS after leaving the NYY before Cashman.
I can’t think of a situation when pinch hitting Gallo with two outs makes any sense, least of all against a lights-out strikeout pitcher.