In what can only be described as a lost season for the 29-year-old slugger, an injured quad kept Giancarlo Stanton out of four of the six ALCS games, putting a bad taste in the mouths of many Yankees fans.
When you consider Aaron Hicks suited up in five of those contests, and even hit an all-important three-run home run off the foul pole in Game 5 — facing impending Tommy John surgery to fix a flexor tendon strain suffered in early August, one has to wonder how bad Stanton’s right quad strain really was for him to not even pinch-hit in the series-deciding Game 6.