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By Ben Watanabe
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Sometimes in trying to offer reassurance, your words can have the opposite effect.
Aaron Boone fell into that trap with an unfortunate choice of words while providing an injury update on New York Yankees designated hitter Giancarlo Stanton on Monday. In giving what should have been optimistic news for the Yankees -- that the oft-injured slugger had taken swings against rehabbing pitcher Carlos Rodon in live batting practice -- Boone used vocabulary that's normally reserved for very dire health situations.
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"G's been hitting a ton already," Boone said, per MLB.com's Bryan Hoch, "but it's good to see him outdoors and moving."
Uh, "outdoors and moving"?
That sort of language is normally reserved for a patient who had a brush with a very severe life-threatening illness. If someone has been bedridden for months or was briefly at death's door, you laud them for getting "outdoors and moving." If you rescue a dog from a puppy mill where they were malnourished and locked in a crate, you celebrate them being "outdoors and moving" on the road toward recovery.
"Outdoors and moving" doesn't sound as hopeful when referring to a professional athlete.
This is where things stand with Stanton, however. He hasn't played 115 games in a season since 2021 despite being almost exclusively a DH. He's appeared in just 24 games this season after playing only 77 games last season.
When he's in the batter's box, Stanton is still a power threat, and the Yankees sorely need that as they fight to keep pace with the Tampa Bay Rays and ahead of the Boston Red Sox in the AL East. Getting him back, along with Aaron Judge, will be far better than any trade deadline additions the Yankees' competition could have added.
So it's nice for the Yankees that Stanton is outdoors and moving again. Next, he can hopefully resume eating solid foods.
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