TAMPA — Giancarlo Stanton entered the clubhouse at George M. Steinbrenner Field for the first time of the spring Sunday and immediately went to the indoor batting cages, preparing for his second season with the Yankees.
With position players reporting Monday, Stanton will have plenty of company, but few have bigger expectations to begin 2019.
Coming off an MVP award in his final season in Miami, Stanton had a fantastic year by most standards with 38 homers and an OPS of .852, but it was a significant dropoff from the career-best 59 homers and 1.007 OPS in Stanton’s final year with the Marlins.