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New York Yankees slugger Giancarlo Stanton has been so cumbersome and injury-prone for so long that he’s struggle to run like a MLB athlete for a while — this much we know. Now, however, the 36-year-old reportedly has so much pain in his elbow that he cannot do things as simple as “opening a bag of chips.”
Despite his ongoing injury problem, Giancarlo Stanton — who has appeared in just 56% of the New York Yankees regular season games since 2019 — is reportedly determined to play the full season this year.
New York Yankees slugger Giancarlo Stanton’s injuries prevent him from doing simple takss such as opening a bag of chips
How Stanton plans to do that certainly seems like a long shot, though, given that he admitted that his tennis elbows cause him so much discomfort that he cannot open “chips, bottles, or a bag of anything.”
“Not while I’m in this line of work,” Stanton said when asked when the tennis elbow he’s been struggling with in both arms in 2024. “You have your good days and bad days, just like your mood and everything.”
“I can’t open a bottle. I can’t open a bag of chips … a bag of anything. That’s the way it is,” he continued, per NJ.com.
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— Everything Yankees (@eyyankees) February 19, 2026
Since joining the New York Yankees in 2018 — his first season was his most productive with his most games (158), at-bats (617), hits (164), runs (102), RBIs (100), and home runs (38) — has a .244 batting average with 659 hits, 186 homers, 497 RBIs and 367 runs scored in 740 games for the Yankees in his career.
Prior to joining the Yankees, Stanton began his career with the Florida/Miami Marlins, where he was names to four All-Star games and National League MVP in 2017.
Behind the two-time defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers, the Yankees have the second-shortest odds to win the World Series this season. Rounding out the top five are the Seattle Mariners, New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies.
Giancarlo Stanton:
pic.twitter.com/SyY5PGGlUb— Kyle Gelling (@KyleGelling) February 26, 2026