Brian Cashman concedes that keeping Giancarlo Stanton healthy and on the field for the New York Yankees at this point in his career is a difficult task.
\"We\'ve gotta get Stanton up and running again,\" Cashman said. \"He\'s injury-prone. We all have lived and known that, but he\'s never not hit when he\'s playing, and this year is the first time that that\'s happened.\"
\"We try to limit the time he\'s down,\" the general manager added. \"But I\'m not gonna tell you he\'s gonna play every game next year because he\'s not. He\'s going to wind up getting hurt again more likely than not because it seems to be part of his game. But I know that when he\'s right and healthy – other than this past year – the guy\'s a great hitter and has been for a long time.\"
Stanton has played only 391 of 708 possible regular season games since 2019.