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Even during his Miami Marlins day, slugger Giancarlo Stanton was always considered injury-prone.
He reached his peak performance in 2017 while playing 159 of the 162 games, though, winning the NL MVP and hitting 59 home runs in the process.
After that season, he was traded to the New York Yankees and after a solid 2018 campaign, his severe injury issues returned in 2019.
Since 2019, the outfielder has suffered injuries to his knee, quad, hamstring, calf, Achilles, and foot, and some of them have required multiple or long stints on the injured list.
Giancarlo Stanton’s last 9 injuries – all lower body pic.twitter.com/GpABWlVQGq
— Talkin’ Jake (@TalkinJake) August 15, 2023
Do you see the pattern here?
Lower-body injuries.
All of them.
Stanton hasn’t suffered a non-lower body injury since straining his left bicep in 2019.
Perhaps he should change something in his training regime, or maybe he is just unlucky, but the fact remains that lower-body issues have robbed him most of his power and some of his ability to stay on the field.
In a recent Yankees game, he was called out at home plate while running painfully slowly towards the catcher.
It’s a self-preservation measure, sure, but it’s starting to affect him in games and the Yankees are actually afraid to play him as an outfielder because of the risk of suffering another lower-body injury.
Stanton is usually productive when he is on the field, but even his offensive upside might be capped at this point: his .735 OPS would be the worst of his career and the second consecutive season in which he posts a sub-.800 mark.
It’s a problem he will probably have to deal with for the rest of his career.
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