Giancarlo Stanton

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Giancarlo Cruz-Michael Stanton
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Giancarlo Stanton began 2010 as one of baseball's top prospects and made his major league debut with the Florida Marlins on June 8th of that season. He had been known as Mike Stanton during his minor league career and first two seasons in the big leagues, but in 2012 instructed his team to have him introduced by his official first name, explaining that "Mike" was a nickname he had started using in elementary school when his friends had trouble pronouncing "Giancarlo", the name his mother gave him and which he has always used on legal documents.

Stanton was offered a scholarship in baseball to the University of Southern California with an opportunity to walk-on to the football team. UNLV wanted him to play football and walk-on to the baseball team, but he declined both. He was taken by the Marlins in the second round of the 2007 amateur draft, one round after Matt Dominguez, a fellow Californian high schooler. Signed by scout Tim McDonnell, he made his pro debut with the GCL Marlins that same year and hit .269/.321/.346 in 8 games and was only 2 for 30 with a double, homer and 15 whiffs for the Jamestown Jammers. Baseball America still named him the best power hitter and best athlete in the Marlins chain.

Giancarlo spent 2008 with the Greensboro Grasshoppers, batting .293/.381/.611 with 26 doubles, 39 home runs (a team record), 89 runs, 97 RBI and 153 strikeouts. He led the South Atlantic League in homers, extra-base hits (68), intentional walks (7), total bases (286) and slugging and was 3rd in runs (4 shy of the lead) and RBI (5 behind leader and league MVP Darin Holcomb). He led Marlins minor leaguers in total bases and was second in homers (3 behind Dallas McPherson) and RBI (one behind McPherson). Baseball America named him Florida's #2 prospect and best power hitter as well as Florida's minor league Player of the Year and the best power prospect in the SAL. He was named to the SAL All-Star outfield alongside Jason Heyward and Caleb Gindl. Baseball America rated him the loop's third-best prospect after Madison Bumgarner and Heyward and right ahead of Jhoulys Chacin and Dominguez. He was 4th in the affiliated minors in slugging (behind Nelson Cruz, Kila Ka'aihue and McPherson, all of the high-scoring Pacific Coast League), tied for second (with Mark Trumbo) in total bases, two behind leader Chris Carter) and tied Carter for second in homers, behind only McPherson.

Still only 19 years old, Stanton remained an elite prospect in 2009 despite a decline in average. He hit .294/.390/.578 in 50 games for the Jupiter Hammerheads and .231/.311/.455 with 16 homers in 79 games for the Jacksonville Suns. He led Marlins minor leaguers in home runs (28), runs (76), RBI (92) and total bases (240) while finishing third with 144 strikeouts. He led both Jupiter and Jacksonville in home runs, an amazing feat. In the 2009 Futures Game, he backed up Heyward in right field for the USA. He struck out against Luis Pérez in the 5th and drew a walk from Juan Carlos Sulbaran in the 7th. Baseball America named him the best power prospect in both the Southern League and Florida State League. They also named him the top prospect in the FSL (just ahead of Jesus Montero) and the #4 prospect in the SL (behind Heyward, Gordon Beckham and Desmond Jennings and just ahead of Jarrod Parker). He was 11 for 23 for the Mesa Solar Sox of the Arizona Fall League. Baseball America rated him the third-best prospect in minor league baseball following Heyward and Stephen Strasburg.

Stanton began 2010 back with Jacksonville on one heck of a tear with 15 home runs in 28 games, 28 walks, 28 runs and 33 RBI with a batting line of .340/.481/.854. After 52 games, he had 21 home runs and 52 RBI when he was called up to the Marlins. He made his debut on June 8th, the same day that Stephen Strasburg was gathering national media attention while making his first start for the Washington Nationals. Stanton got off on the right foot, going 3 for 5 with two runs scored in a 10-8 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies. In his rookie season, he hit .259 in 100 games with 22 homers and 59 RBI. He was named to the 2010 Topps All-Star Rookie Team. Back as the Marlins' starting right fielder in 2011, he hit 34 homers in 150 games - good for 5th in the National League - along with 30 doubles and 87 RBI. His batting average was .262 and he also drew 70 walks for a .356 OBP, confirming his place as one of the top young power hitters in the major leagues.

With the team now known as the Miami Marlins in 2012, and sporting his birth name, he staked an early claim for the hardest ball ever hit at his team's new digs, Marlins Park. On May 21st, he crushed one of ageless Jamie Moyer's pitches to left field, and it took out a portion of the lights on the scoreboard as he cleared the bases with a grand slam. Teammate Heath Bell commented: "I've never seen a ball leave the yard so fast." His blast was largely responsible for a 7-4 win over the Colorado Rockies. It was already his 9th long ball of the year, matching his previous season's pace. He hit .343 and slugged .769 while he matched team records for home runs (12) and RBI (30) in May and earned National League Player of the Month honors as the Marlins had their best month ever, with a record of 21-8. He was named a member of the National League squad in the 2012 All-Star Game, his first participation in the midsummer classic, but had to miss the game after undergoing surgery on July 8th to remove pieces of loose cartilage. He returned to the line-up on August 7th without seemingly missing a beat. In his first game back, he drove in a run on a sacrifice fly, and on August 8th went 4 for 5 with a pair of homers in a 13-0 drubbing of the New York Mets. He finished the year hitting .290/.361/.608 in 123 games, leading the league in slugging percentage. In spite of the time missed to injury, he matched his previous season's total with 30 doubles, and set a new personal best with 37 homers, his 86 RBI falling one short of the previous year's number.

However, after their initial season in their new ballpark, the Marlins decided to clean house, trading away all three big name free agents they had signed prior to the 2012 season, as well as a few other veteran players to boot, leaving Stanton and pitcher Ricky Nolasco pretty much the only established veterans on the team. Stanton expressed his displeasure with the situation in no uncertain terms: "Alright, I'm pissed off!!! Plain and Simple", he tweeted after the Marlins announced a 12-player trade with the Toronto Blue Jays on November 13th. It was clear that a number of teams were interested in acquiring the young slugger as well, however, not being eligible for free agency until 2016 and signed to a very reasonable salary, Stanton was not headed anywhere in the immediate future. Stanton then indicated he had accepted an invitation to play for Team USA in the 2013 World Baseball Classic. The Marlins got a scare on February 20th when Stanton was beaned by a fastball from teammate Jose Fernandez in an intrasquad game, although Giancarlo escaped without serious injury. Giancarlo's future with the Marlins became cloudier when in the first few days of spring training, owner Jeffrey Loria made some cryptic comments about him during a press conference, stating that he would ideally like to sign him to a long term contract, but did not want to negotiate until after the 2013 season. He then added: "I would love to see him be the centerpiece of this ball club. He'd be the young giant in the ball club, but you can't make promises in this game because strange things happen all the time." Reporters immediately interpreted this as a veiled promise to trade away Stanton as soon as he would begin earning serious money, and perhaps even earlier. Stanton started the season slowly but began to hit at the end of April, hitting his first three homers of the year in a two-game span on April 27-28, part of getting 8 hits in 5 games. However, he then went 0 for 5 in a game against the New York Mets on April 29th, having to leave in the 10th inning when he pulled a hamstring running out a ground ball. He was immediately placed on the disabled list and only returned to the line-up on June 10th. He ended up playing 116 games for the last-place Marlins and was easily their best hitter, slugging 26 doubles and 24 homers, scoring and driving in 62 runs, and batting at a .249 clip with an OBP of .365 and a slugging percentage of .480. In the tough hitting conditions of Marlins Park, that was good for an OPS+ of 131. He was 8th in the 2013 NL in walks (74), 4th in home run ratio (behind Pedro Alvarez, Paul Goldschmidt and Carlos Gonzalez) and first in errors in right field (8, one ahead of Hunter Pence).

Stanton started the 2014 season red hot. On April 18th, he hit a walk-off grand slam in the 9th inning off Yoervis Medina of the Seattle Mariners to give the Marlins an 8-4 win; it was the second such grand slam of his career, following one on June 30th the preceding year. The shot gave him 26 RBIs at that early point of the season. On September 8th, he tied the Marlins' franchise record for home runs by hitting number 154 in a 6-4 win over the Milwaukee Brewers. In only his fifth season, he had matched Dan Uggla's team record, and was leading the National League in both homers (37) and RBIs (105) at that point. However, his season ended on a brutal note on September 11th, when he was hit in the face by a fastball thrown by the Brewers' Mike Fiers in the 5th inning. The pitch fractured a number of facial bones and broke some teeth, and he lay on the ground at home plate for several minutes, bleeding profusely, before being evacuated on a stretcher. To add insult to literal injury, umpire D.J. Reyburn called the pitch a strike, forcing the Marlins to bring in pinch-hitter Reed Johnson to complete the at-bat. Johnson struck out on a pitch that also hit him, prompting a bench-clearing brawl and the ejection of both manager Mike Redmond and 3B Casey McGehee. As a final ignominy, Johnson's strikeout was charged to Giancarlo, since the count was 0 and 2 when he was forced to leave the game. Stanton needed to have five of his teeth replaced or fixed and blood drained from his sinus cavity. He explained that he had briefly passed out after being hit, and that when he came to, he could only hear a loud ringing in his ears and feel the blood in his mouth, with chunks of teeth floating about. In spite of missing the last two weeks, he did end up winning the NL home run crown, but not the RBI one as Adrian Gonzalez had 116. He also finished second behind P Clayton Kershaw in the voting for the MVP Award, making him the top position player in the National League that year.

On November 17th, Stanton signed a 13-year contract with the Marlins, worth $325 million, or $25 million per season. It was the largest contract in major league history, topping the $282 million the Detroit Tigers had given Miguel Cabrera the previous March, However, at only 25, Stanton had a chance to still be a productive player at the end of the deal, in contrast to others who had signed mega-contracts in recent years, such as Cabrera, Alex Rodriguez, Prince Fielder or Albert Pujols. While the contract was guaranteed and included a no-trade clause, it was also heavily back-loaded, giving the Marlins flexibility to add some players to build a contender around Stanton. There was also an opt-out clause after the 2020 season, giving Stanton an opportunity to test the market again if the contract was no longer in line with prevailing salary trends at that time. On April 16th, when he hit his first home run of the season off Dillon Gee of the New York Mets, he took over for Dan Uggla as the leading home run hitter in Marlins franchise history, with 155. The two had been tied since just before Stanton's injury the previous September. He was hitting .265 and leading the National League with 27 home runs and 67 RBIs in 74 games when he suffered another setback on June 27th as he was placed on the disabled list with a fractured hamate bone in his left hand. He had suffered the injury in the 9th inning of the previous night's game and was expected to be out until August. In spite of the injury, he was named the NL Player of the Month for June, as he hit .344 with 12 homers. The injury took longer to heal than expected, however, and in September the Marlins acknowledged that he would not be back until the following spring.

Stanton did not have a particularly strong first half in 2016, as he was hitting only .220 at the end of June, with 15 homers. As a result, he failed to make the All-Star team. However, on the day the squads were announced on July 5th, he hit a pair of homers to lead the Marlins over the New York Mets, 5-2, then the next day, after a 1st-inning walk, he hit homers in his next two plate appearances to give him four homers in as many at-bats. The last of these was the 200th of his career. But on August 13th, he was the victim of yet another serious injury, this one a severely pulled groin muscle that came with a recovery prognosis of six weeks, i.e. the rest of the regular season. In 103 games, he was hitting .244 with 25 doubles and 70 homers. The injury came at a particularly bad time for the Marlins as they were in the race for a wild card slot, but now had their two main sources of home run power, Stanton and 1B Justin Bour, stuck on the DL at the same time.

Stanton made it back to the All-Star Game in 2017, an important one for him as it was played in his home ballpark of Marlins Park, he had a relatively quiet first half as teammate Marcell Ozuna grabbed whatever headlines were to be had with the Marlins playing poorly over the first half. However, he went on a torrid streak after the break, hitting homers in six of seven games culminating with his 31st and 32nd homers on July 24th. That gave him a share of the major league lead with Aaron Judge of the New York Yankees, who had completely eclipsed him in winning the Home Run Derby at that month's All-Star Game. On August 7th, he tied his career mark with his 37th homer; that placed the Marlins' single-season record of 42, set by Gary Sheffield in 1996, well within his sights. The following day, he set a new personal best with #38 in a 7-3 win over the Washington Nationals. His recent power surge had allowed him to take over the major league lead from rookie Aaron Judge, who had dominated in the early part of the season but had been in a slump since the All-Star break. On August 11th he hit his 40th homer, reaching the mark for the first time and becoming the first major leaguer to do so that season. Continuing his torrid stretch, he tied Sheffield's team record only two days later, on August 13th. That homer was also the 250th of his career. He set a new team record the next day with homer #43 in his fifth straight game with a long ball as Miami defeated the San Francisco Giants, 8-3. "He's on a sick terror," commented teammate Dee Gordon after the game. On August 15th, he extended his team record for most consecutive games with a home run to 6 as he hit #44. The question was now whether Roger Maris' total of 61 homers in a season, considered by many to be the "untainted" record, was within reach. On August 27th, he became the first National league player since Prince Fielder in 2007 to reach 50 homers in a season. His slugging was carrying the Marlins on his shoulders, as they were now withing striking distance of a wild card spot, something which would have been completely far-fetched at the beginning of the month. The next mark in his sights was the major league record for homers in August, 18, set by Rudy York in 1937, a record which he tied with another long ball on August 29th. He ended the month with 18 homers and 37 RBIs in addition to a .349 average and was named the NL Player of the Month, his second time winning the honor. By hitting his 55th homer on September 18th, he became the first major league player to reach the mark since Ryan Howard had hit 58 homers in 2006. On September 28th, he hit two more long balls in a 7-1 Marlins win over the Atlanta Braves, giving him 59 and keeping open the possibility, with three games left to play, that he could reach the magical numbers of 60 or 61. However, he did not homer again in his final three games, ending the year at 59 homers and 132 RBIs, both being league-leading figures. He was named the winner of the 2017 National League Most Valuable Player Award, outpointing Joey Votto of the Cincinnati Reds in a close vote.

The MVP win came at a time when trade rumors were swirling around Stanton, as the Marlins' new ownership team, led by Derek Jeter, indicated that they would entertain trade offers as they were looking to reduce payroll. There even serious rumors that they had given him an ultimatum: either wave his no-trade clause, or stay put while everyone else on the team of value gets traded in order to meet payroll targets, in effect forcing him to sit through yet another rebuilding. It wasn't clear how either option would result in anything other than further antagonizing an already skeptical fan base in south Florida, but it was apparently the direction the new ownership group wanted to take. Given the size of his contract, however, the Marlins were unlikely to receive much talent in return for the slugger, unless they were willing to absorb a huge part of his outstanding salary. On December 9th, stories emerged that the winners of the sweepstakes for Stanton's future services would be the New York Yankees, who were on Giancarlo's list of acceptable trade partners. They would pick up $265 million of the $295 million remaining on his contract, and give up 2B Starlin Castro and two prospects, Jorge Guzman and Jose Devers. The trade was officially confirmed on December 11th. He started his career in pinstripes with a bang as on Opening Day, March 29, 2018 he hit a pair of homers, a 1st-inning shot off J.A. Happ and a 9th-inning one against Tyler Clippard, and added a double as well, scoring 3 runs and driving in 4 in a 6-1 Yankees victory over the Toronto Blue Jays. He played DH that day, with Brett Gardner, Aaron Hicks and Aaron Judge making up the outfield. However, he went into a slump after that great first game, going 1 for 14 over his next four games and putting on the rare "platinum sombrero" by striking out five times in the Yankees' home opener against the Tampa Bay Rays on April 3rd. He snapped out of that brief funk with his first homer in new home park in the 1st inning of the next day's game; it was a no-doubt two-run shot off Blake Snell that traveled an estimated 458 feet, getting the Yankees on their way to an 11-4 win. However, he had another five-strikeout game on April 8th. In that game, he wasted a chance to redeem himself in extra innings when he came up against the Baltimore Orioles in the 12th after Judge had just hit into a bases-loaded double play, but he ended the game with another strikeout. On May 2nd, however, he had a great performance in support of Luis Severino's first career shutout as he hit two homers and added another RBI on a double in accounting for all the runs in a 4-0 win over the Houston Astros. On June 4th, he got a measure of revenge on Mike Fiers, who had ended his 2014 season early with a beaning. Now pitching for the Detroit Tigers, Fiers gave up a 456-foot towering home run to Stanton in the 6th inning at Comerica Park. His first season as a Yankee was considered a bit of a disappointment as he failed to reproduce his outlandish numbers of the year before, but he still topped 30 homers before the end of August. On August 30th, he hit his 300th career homer. It happened in his 1,119th career game, the fifth fewest in major league history. He finished the year at .266 with 38 homers and 100 RBIs in 158 games. These would have been considered great numbers were it not for the outsized expectations placed on him. In the first postseason games of his career, he homered in 3 at-bats in New York's win over the Oakland Athletics in the Wild Card Game, then went 4 for 18 in their loss to the Boston Red Sox in the Division Series.

In 2019, after going 2 for 8 with 7 walks in the Yankees' first three games, he was placed on the injured list on April 1st with an aching left biceps. He was out until June 18th, but the Yankees managed to not just stay afloat but play very well in his absence, something that was even more surprising given that Judge was also out of action at the same time. He hit his first homer of the year on June 24th against Aaron Sanchez of the Toronto Blue Jays, but the very next day had to leave the game after an awkward slide at third base and a collision with Jays pitcher Clayton Richard, who was covering the bag. Not only was he tagged out in a double play, but he also aggravated his earlier injury and went back on the IL. In the end, he played just 18 games during the regular season, hitting .288 with 3 homers and 13 RBIs, making little contribution to a season of over 100 wins and the highest home run total in team history. However, he was healthy for the postseason, but did not play everyday. He went 1-for-6 with 4 walks as the Yankees swept the Minnesota Twins in the Division Series, but only had 7 at-bats, with one homer, in their loss to the Houston Astros in the ALCS.

He was back in the starting line-up in the long-delayed 2020 opening day game on July 23rd, as the DH, and immediately made his presence felt as he took Max Scherzer of the Washington Nationals deep for a two-run homer in his first at-bat of the year, leading the Yanks to a 4-1 win. It was a no-doubter, traveling over 450 feet, and he added another RBI later in the game. On July 25th, he hit another monster homer, this one measured at 483 feet, with an exit velocity of 121.3 mph, the second highest ever measures; of course, he already owned the record for the hardest-hit homer, a blast timed at 121.7 mph on August 9, 2018. Indeed, one of the secrets of Stanton's exceptional power is that he hits the ball harder than anyone in the game. In the first two seasons when the "Statcast" measuring system was in place, in 2014 and 2015, he was responsible for the two hardest-hit balls recorded by the system (out of 92,000): a single clocked at 120.3 mph on May 12, 2015, and a double at 119.7 mph on May 1st of that same year, and obviously, kept up his habit of hurting the ball in ensuing years. However, after that strong start, the injury bug caught up with him again as he was removed from a game against the Tampa Bay Rays on August 8th with a pulled hamstring, landing him on the injured list. He was batting .293 in 14 games, with 3 doubles, 3 homers and 7 RBIs. He ended up playing 23 games in the regular season, with 4 homers, 11 RBIs and an average of .250. In the postseason, any injuries during the season were a distant memory, as he was as good as ever, belting 6 long balls in just 26 at-bats in 7 games. He also scored 7 runs and drove in 13 for a .307 average and a slugging percentage of 1.038, reminding everyone of how devastating an offensive force he could be when healthy.

After his postseason display in 2020, the Yankees were hoping to finally see the real Giancarlo in 2021, although to maximize the chance of this happening, they let it be known that they would avoid playing him in the outfield as much as possible. He ended up playing 139 games, with 108 starts at DH and 26 in the outfield. He batted .273 with 35 homers and 97 RBIs and was just slightly below his career norms in terms of OBP, slugging percentage, OPS and OPS+. In effect, for the first time since his initial season in pinstripes, the yankees were getting their money's worth. However, they made a quick exit from the postseason, losing the Boston Red Sox in the Wild Card Game. Stanton did his part,though, going 3 for 4 with a solo homer in the winner-take-all game. On April 27, 2022, he hit home run #350 for his career, making him the 7th fastest to the mark in terms of games played (1,341). That same week, there had been a lot of talk about whether any active players had a shot at reaching any of the four traditional career milestones, following Miguel Cabrera's entry into the 3,000 hit club, i.e. 300 wins, the 3,000 strikeouts or 500 home runs. Stanton seemed the best placed to reach the homer mark, being still only 32, but many feared that his recent history of injuries did not bode well. He hit his 10th homer in a 10-4 win over the White Sox on May 13th, in the same game as Judge hit his 12th. It was only the third time in the Yankees' long history that two hitters had reached double figures in homers in 32 games; the others were Babe Ruth (14) and Lou Gehrig (10) in 1930 and Mickey Mantle (16) and Yogi Berra (12) in 1956. He was named the winner of the Ted Williams Award as MVP of the 2022 All-Star Game, as his two-run homer off Tony Gonsolin in the 4th inning was the key blow for the American League in the game. A variety of injuries limited him to 110 games that season, in contrast to Judge who broke the AL single-season homer run record, and he batted .211 with 31 homers and 78 RBIs, for an OPS+ of 113 - the lowest of his career. In the postseason, he went 2 for 16, with both hits homers in the Yankees' defeat of the Cleveland Guardians in the Division Series, and 4 for 16 with 2 doubles as they lost to the Houston Astros in the ALCS.

2023 was a tough season for Stanton as he lost even more time to injuries, and barely managed to maintain his batting average above .200 while striking out in almost a third of his at-bats. His repeated absences did not help a Yankees offense that struggled all season and was unable to generate much outside of Judge's contributions. Still, he had a highlight on September 5th when he connected for the 400th home run of his career off José Cisnero of the Detroit Tigers to break a 1-1 tie in the 6th inning of a 5-1 Yankees win. Having reached the mark in 1,520 career games made him the fourth fastest in history, after Mark McGwire, Babe Ruth and Alex Rodriguez and just ahead of Albert Pujols, who had needed 1,523 games. He ended the year at .191 in 101 games, with 24 homers, 60 RBIs and an OPS+ of 87, the lowest of his career by a country mile (he had never previously been under 100).

Stanton was a bit of a forgotten man as the Yankees headed into the 2024 season, overshadowed by Judge - as always - but also by new acquisition Juan Soto. Still, he got off to a good start, with early highlights including blasting a grand slam in an 8-3 win over the Toronto Blue Jays on April 7th, and homering against his former team, the Marlins, on April 10th. That long ball made him the lastest player to have homered against all 30 major league teams, the 15th active player to reach that milestone.

Notable Achievements[edit]

  • 2010 Topps All-Star Rookie Team
  • 5-time All-Star (2012, 2014, 2015, 2017 & 2022)
  • 2022 All-Star Game MVP
  • 2017 NL MVP
  • 2-time NL Silver Slugger Award Winner (2014 & 2017)
  • 3-time NL Slugging Percentage Leader (2012, 2014 & 2017)
  • NL Total Bases Leader (2014)
  • 2-time NL Home Runs Leader (2014 & 2017)
  • NL RBI Leader (2017)
  • 20-Home Run Seasons: 12 (2010-2018 & 2021-2023)
  • 30-Home Run Seasons: 7 (2011, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2021 & 2022)
  • 40-Home Run Seasons: 1 (2017)
  • 50-Home Run Seasons: 1 (2017)
  • 100 RBI Seasons: 3 (2014, 2017 & 2018)
  • 100 Runs Scored Seasons: 2 (2017 & 2018)


NL MVP
2016 2017 2018
Kris Bryant Giancarlo Stanton Christian Yelich

Records held[edit]

  • Most home runs in August: 18 (2017; Rudy York hit 18 in the AL)
  • Most strikeouts in a 9-inning game: 5, New York vs. Tampa Bay, April 3, 2018 (tied with many others)

Sources[edit]

Further Reading[edit]

  • Christine Brennan: "Here's hoping Giancarlo Stanton becomes people's home run champ", 'USA Today Sports, September 20, 2017. [1]
  • Mark Feinsand: "Pop star: Stanton slugs, dominates headlines", mlb.com, December 28, 2017. [2]
  • Mark Feinsand: "Stanton returns home an All-Star, wins MVP: Yankees star grew up attending games at Dodger Stadium: 'I can't explain how special this is'", mlb.com, July 20, 2022. [3]
  • Mike Fitzpatrick (The Associated Press): "Stanton hits his 400th home run to lead Cole and the Yankees to a 5-1 victory over the Tigers", Yahoo! Sports, September 5, 2023. [4]
  • Joe Frisaro: "Healthy Stanton: No more time for excuses", mlb.com, February 20, 2016. [5]
  • Joe Frisaro: "Stanton sets Marlins' mark with 43rd homer: Slugger goes deep in 5th straight for another club record", mlb.com, August 15, 2017. [6]
  • Joe Frisaro: "Stanton fishes out close vote, wins NL MVP: Slugger edges Votto by 2 points, becomes first Marlin to claim honor", mlb.com, November 16, 2017. [7]
  • Joe Frisaro: "After MVP year, Stanton's future unsettled", mlb.com, November 17, 2017. [8]
  • Bryan Hoch: "Stanton ready for first postseason experience: Slugger excited to experience 'crazy' October atmosphere at Yankee Stadium", mlb.com, October 2, 2018. [9]
  • Bryan Hoch: "Stanton's 'cool feat'? 7th fastest to 350 HRs! Slugger's three-RBI game leads Yankees to fifth straight win", mlb.com, April 28, 2022. [10]
  • Bryan Hoch: "30 for 30: Stanton latest to homer vs. every team: Yankees slugger joins list after going deep vs. his former club for 1st time", mlb.com, April 11, 2024. [11]
  • Mike Lupica: "Year 2 of Judge-Stanton combo may be historic: Yankees' biggest bashers out to challenge Maris-Mantle mark", mlb.com, March 27, 2019. [12]
  • Mike Lupica: "Stanton poised to live up to MVP pedigree", March 19, 2021. [13]
  • Bob Nightengale: "Would the Marlins dare trade Giancarlo Stanton in the offseason?", USA Today Sports, August 28, 2017. [14]
  • Bob Nightengale: "Yankees' Evil Empire is in full force with trade for Giancarlo Stanton", USA Today Sports, December 9, 2017. [15]
  • Bob Nightengale: "From dysfunction to disses: Giancarlo Stanton's Marlins tenure ends in acrimony", USA Today Sports, December 11, 2017. [16]
  • Bob Nightengale: "Giancarlo Stanton won't hide from expectations - or fanfare - as a New York Yankee", USA Today Sports, February 22, 2018. [17]
  • Bob Nightengale: "Giancarlo Stanton forced to face the music in Yankees' blowout loss to Red Sox", USA Today Sports',, April 11, 2018. [18]
  • Jorge L. Ortiz: "Marlins' Giancarlo Stanton edges out Reds' Joey Votto for NL MVP in fourth closest election", US Today Sports, November 16, 2017. [19]
  • Jorge L. Ortiz: "Giancarlo Stanton doing everything wrong at Yankee Stadium; can he replicate road success?", USA Today Sports, April 18, 2018. [20]
  • Mike Petriello: "Stanton appears to have a clear path to 62: Marlins slugger leads Majors with 47 home runs, has favorable schedule down the stretch", mlb.com, August 25, 2017. [21]
  • Tracy Ringolsby: "As early as '05, Stanton's potential was clear: Slugger made impression on then-assistant coach at Long Beach State", mlb.com, August 15, 2017. [22]
  • Roger Schlueter: "Stanton's path to 500, 600 and 700 homers", mlb.com, February 27, 2016. [23]
  • Clark Spencer: "Marlins warn Stanton: Accept a trade or you’ll be only star on stripped-down team", "Fish Bytes", The Miami Herald, November 28, 2017. [24]
  • Jesse Yomtov: "4 sensible outcomes for a Giancarlo Stanton trade", USA Today Sports, November 16, 2017. [25]

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