Breaking news : Yankees news Giancarlo Stanton’s injury is a big problem, Aaron Boone ready to commit long-term

 

Spring Training is supposed to bring optimism to a potential World Series contender like the New York Yankees. Unfortunately, Giancarlo Stanton’s latest injury has the potential to torpedo the franchise’s hopes of ending their World Series drought before the season ever begins.

The veteran slugger’s elbow injury was the biggest piece of news emanating from the team’s preseason complex this week but it wasn’t the only noteworthy nugget. Manager Aaron Boone’s future is a hot topic at the moment with one year left on his current contract. Most Yankee fans will be happy to hear that there’s a significant amount of optimism on that front.

 

The team also continues to make moves on the fringes of their roster to encourage competition during the spring. It’s impossible to know when a seemingly minor transaction can turn into an important move for a team’s hopes of making a lengthy postseason run.

New York fans who want to know what’s going on with the Yankees this week should pay the most attention to the following storylines.

 

Stanton has never been the posterchild for perfect health during his time with the Yankees. That makes the news that he’s currently shutting down all of his baseball activities due to elbow pain a major red flag for Cashman and the team’s front office.

 

An uptick in Stanton’s health was something the Yankees were hoping could help mitigate the loss of Juan Soto in free agency. Now it seems that he’s not going to be in Boone’s Openin Day lineup. There’s no telling how many games Stanton will need to miss to manage such a nebulous injury.

The long-range ramifications of this injury are even more troubling to the Yankees. Stanton’s contract continues to look worse and worse as he gets older. It might become necessary to offload him in the near future to increase payroll flexibility. The more he suffers with injury the harder it’s going to be for New York to find a taker for an overpaid designated hitter