By Joiner Martinez
20 Jul 2024, 17:46 PM EDT
New York Yankees slugger Giancarlo Stanton will likely be ready for game action late next week, though the team has not determined whether he will go on a minor league injury rehabilitation assignment.
Stanton strained his left hamstring while running the bases on June 22 and went on the disabled list for the eighth time in six years.
“I just have to get a few more days here, a few good days,” Stanton said Saturday. “If I have a few good days this week, I’ll make a decision at the end of next week.”
“I just have to get through a few more days here, good days together,” Stanton said Saturday. “If I have a few good days this week, I’ll make a decision at the end of next week.”
He missed his 21st game of the season on Saturday after sitting out 266 of 708 games over the previous five seasons (38%).
“It’s about endurance, building it over and over again every day,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. “I think he feels great, but with that volume under his belt to where he’s coming back, he’s ready to go. So, yeah, now it’s just about accumulating days to get it together.”
Boone wasn’t sure a rehab assignment was necessary.
“The level of stuff you can replicate now really speeds up that clock,” he said. “And because you’re not necessarily building endurance by being out there for nine innings on the field, it’s a little gray.”
Stanton played in 69 of the Yankees’ first 79 games (none in the field) and is batting .246 with 18 homers and 45 RBIs. New York entered Saturday 7-13 in his absence.
“Being out in general sucks and then not being able to help the team at all during any type of period, let alone a bad one,” Stanton said.
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