Giancarlo Stanton, OF

[Ramp]

I do not get the joke. What he said doesn't apply to anything.

I mean I would get it if he posted it before the article... it made 0 sense when he did

[Miamarlin21]

I just still have a bad feeling about the situation despite them still playing in games.

[Ramp]

really doesn't make any sense

[Miamarlin21]

I usually don't.

[AdamRavs]

Cocaine is a hell of a drug

[MiamiHomer]

Jon Morosi @jonmorosi

Giancarlo Stanton will keep trying to play through cartilage damage in left knee, acknowledges he may need periodic days off.

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[Fish Tank Frenzy]

No bueno :/

[emkayseven]

take care of it now

[Flum]

If only he hadn't missed spring training, that rusty old knee would be fine.

-Tommy Hutton

[Swifty]

Unless I'm reading this incorrectly, the recovery for surgical intervention on knee-cartiledge is 4-5 weeks. Consider that isn't on "elite athlete time" and we're probably more in line with 6-8 weeks. If he can play through it, fine, I guess. If it's going to be a perpetual three days on, one day off, thing that gets worse, maybe it's a good idea to get it cleaned and say see you in June.

[Flum]

I tend to agree. Also, if there's any chance that playing through the injury could exacerbate it at all, I definitely think that they should fix it now.

[Chewford]

I also count myself among those who say it should be fixed now if it's something that needs to be fixed.

[Swifty]

I tend to agree. Also, if there's any chance that playing through the injury could exacerbate it at all, I definitely think that they should fix it now.

I'd hope we wouldn't let him play if that's the case.

[Flum]

I'd hope we wouldn't let him play if that's the case.

I'd hope so too, but I don't necessarily have a tremendous amount of faith in them.

[BigGameFish]

There is definitely something wrong with him. Half of his hits are groundball singles through the infield. His hits have very little lift. He isnt keeping his head down, or his chin in, and thus he's missing badly on outside pitches; which he seems to love to swing at. His strikezone recognition sucks, particularly on outside pitches with movement away from him.

I'm not sure if this is atributable to his injuries, I think it's more mental at this point. It looks like he's just in a bad slump, and I do agree that additional spring time would have helped. Eduardo Perez needs to get him to calm down at the plate, be patient, and keep his head on the ball. He needs some protection behind him, hopefully ozzie puts infante's hot bat there.