Stanton Delay's Surgery Indefinitely
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
This was a story that came out this morning. Randy Miller covers the team at NJ.com. So here's the headline. It's not even March.
I don't look at NJ.com anymore.
Okay, well, I'm going to give you some of the specifics of this story. Yankees' Giancarlo Stanton can't open a bag of chips due to pain, but still eyes full season. So this is still going back to the elbows, the double... Tennis elbow situation. He can't open a bag of chips. Correct, yes.
Why is Giancarlo Stanton delaying his elbow surgery?
So let's see if I can give you some quotes here. Full off season of rest didn't heal his tennis elbow that have plagued both arms since 2024. Quote, that'll never be the case, Stanton said softly. Not while I'm in this line of work. You have your good days and your bad days, just like your mood and everything. His good days aren't normal. Quote, I can't open a bottle. I can't open a bag of chips, a bag of anything. That's the way it is.
All right, so now I have tennis elbow myself. I do one as well. I understand the pain involved in it. You're going to tell me they can't figure this out at the pro level?
Well, a sports orthopedic surgeon told NJ.com last March Stanton would be facing only a couple months recovery with surgery, which is essentially cleaning out the tendon, blah, blah, blah. Does Stanton have any regret about not having surgery? You get the surgery, and you can go back to being in the general population in a few months, but my job is to put some of the most force into a batted ball. And he basically said he can't have the surgery until his playing career is over, in his opinion.
Okay.
It's not going to be fixed in surgery. I don't care what any doctor says because they don't know what's going on.
What I don't understand with this, though, and that premise that he's expecting to play a full season, if after four or five months off hasn't healed it, why all of a sudden is he going to be ready in four or five weeks? I don't know.
He's talking about management and rest and trying to stay off the IL. He's not going to play 162 games, obviously.
Now, in his defense, and you have it too, I thought by not swinging a golf club for three or four months that I would be better. I'm not. It still hurts like hell. But I also, I'm not playing baseball for millions of dollars. I'm not going to stop playing.
Well, that's his point. Like, yeah, okay. I could go get the surgery done and go back to regular life, but I'm not living a regular life right now. Correct. My career here.
It just sucks that he hasn't gotten it right.
Well, he says he wants a full season, and the key is getting in the box. Just get me in the box.
You can sit on my face.
So they're going to try and get that done. Let me give you Scott Boris on the Joel Sherman, John Heyman podcast talking about Hal Steinbrenner.
I've known Hal Steinbrenner for a long time. And I negotiated with his father, with him. I learned something in the one Soto pursuit in the meeting when Hal was there, is that I saw an emotional commitment to competitiveness. I had not seen that personally before.
So even though Soto ends up at the Mets, he's given him a compliment for the way in which the Yankees pursued and negotiated, right? And he saw the same this winter in the Cody Bellinger negotiation.
They stuck with it. That was their plan. That's what they wanted to do. And so the idea of being competitive, being personally committed, being involved, I've seen a transition in that in Hal where I think that's how he feels about his leadership.
With the Yankees. So, I mean, I get it. It works well for the agent to talk up the owner for future negotiations. And he had similar comments about Steve Cohen's commitment to winning. But Boris can rub people the wrong way sometimes.
What challenges is Stanton facing with his tennis elbow?
So kind of interesting to hear him make those comments. He actually sounded normal. Yes. Well, he wasn't doing anything goofy. Yeah, he wasn't doing his goofy stuff. Did you talk about the Alonzo negotiations at all? I just saw the two clips on Howe and the one on Cohen. And you could even hear it chopped up in there. It was condensed down into the clip.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:24
2
Why is Giancarlo Stanton delaying his elbow surgery?
0:24–3:17
3
What challenges is Stanton facing with his tennis elbow?
3:17–6:51
4
What are Scott Boras' thoughts on Hal Steinbrenner's player pursuit?
6:51–10:40
5
What happened to Padres pitcher Matt Waldron?
10:40–12:38
6
How are the Yankees managing player injuries this season?
12:38–12:55
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