Giancarlo Stanton didn't make his 2025 debut until June 16 after rehabbing "tennis elbow" in both arms. Two months later, the 35-year-old slugger is showing exactly why the Yankees can't afford to lose him again.

And why it is so concerning that the Bronx Bombers' October hopes rest, in part, on his health.

The Yankees' offense is built to win with power, and Stanton still delivers it in bunches.

In just 41 games this season, he's hitting .281 with a .910 OPS, launching 10 home runs in his last 25 games. That production from the middle of the lineup gives New York an edge in tight playoff races and forces opposing pitchers to work through a dangerous three-hitter stretch with Aaron Judge and Cody Bellinger.

But the same body that produces tape-measure shots has been notoriously unrelia

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