Yankees’ Giancarlo Stanton Facing Injury Concern Before 2025

The New York Yankees lost one slugger in the offseason to the crosstown Mets, and now they might enter the new season without a second established home run threat.

When he arrived at Spring Training a few days ago, Giancarlo Stanton reported that he hadn’t swung a bat for three to four weeks.

The cause?

Severe pain in both elbows.

Stanton went on to elaborate on the issue, saying that it affected him for most of the 2024 season. Yesterday, manager Aaron Boone told reporters that Stanton was continuing to undergo treatment on both elbows — but that a return to baseball activity wasn’t imminent.

Now, multiple sources have revealed that Stanton is headed to New York for medical testing. Last year’s ALCS MVP was a huge reason why the Yankees reached the World Series. Throughout the postseason, Stanton provided the Yanks with many moments. His four home run performance against Cleveland in the ALCS was followed by two homers in the World Series — a five-game loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers.

While Boone told reporters that Stanton’s elbow issues were “akin to tennis elbow,” this latest development may be a sign of a bigger injury. Two-time MVP Aaron Judge opened up about Stanton’s importance to the team:

We’ll see what the doctors say about what’s going on. I’ve been checking with him every day, talking to him. We went out to dinner. He’s got a positive mindset with everything. … He has some downtime right now, just to get things right. I want a healthy G in the middle of the season.

The toughest thing is when you try to battle these things during the season, because then you’re 50 percent, trying to battle. If he needs to take care of something right now, I think it’s the best [time]. Take your rest, take your time. Do whatever you need to do now and be ready to go. If it’s the early part of the season, I’d rather have that than battle through something all the way until August and the end of the season.

Through seven seasons with the Yankees, Stanton has hit 162 HR and driven in 431 runs. In the postseason, the former National League MVP has taken his game to another level — smacking 18 HR while posting a .265 BA and .994 OPS.

“[Fans] will get on him about missing some games, but this guy is one of the toughest guys, hardest-working guys, I’ve ever seen,” Judge said. “He’s going to be fine when it comes down to it. It’s just a little bump in the road. We’d rather have this now than in the middle of the season.”