Since his long-awaited return to the 2025 Yankees lineup, Giancarlo Stanton has been irreplaceable. The 35-year-old slugger is in the midst of perhaps his best stretch since joining the Yankees way back in 2018, and is proving that he can still be the otherworldly offensive threat that we’ve seen him be. This all comes, of course, after he missed the first two and a half months of the season, with 2025 looking like a good encapsulation of the Yankee portion of Stanton’s career.

On Tuesday, in the Yankees’ win over Minnesota, we enjoyed what was envisioned back in 2017 — Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton reaching base a combined eight times, with each of them accounting for a booming home run. It was perhaps the high point in what’s been one of the better runs of Stanton’s 16-year career.

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