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TAMPA, Fla. — Giancarlo Stanton wasn’t at his Yankees clubhouse locker on Sunday before, during or after any of the three media availabilities. The oft-injured slugger who’s in an indefinite holding pattern due to tennis elbow in both arms wasn’t at Steinbrenner Field or his Tampa residence.

The New York Yankees could have Giancarlo Stanton available for the upcoming season, according to a report on the health of their designated hitter’s elbows.

New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone provided an increasingly worrisome injury update on designated hitter Giancarlo Stanton, who has been battling soreness in both elbows this spring. Boone says that Stanton won't start baseball activities in the immediate future.

Giancarlo Stanton is out with injured elbows and his return date is uncertain. However, the Yankees might have found the right candidate.

Tennis elbow is almost always the result of injury from repeated action, such as swinging a tennis racquet or, in Stanton’s case, a baseball bat, said Dr. Guillem Gonzalez-Lomas, an orthopedic surgeon at New York University Langone Health.

Craig Pille, MD, Primary Care Sports Medicine Physician at NYU Langone Health joins Brandon London to break down Giancarlo Stanton's injury. Dr. Pille describes what may be going on with Yankees' Giancarlo Stanton after Aaron Boone described it as,

The New York Yankees are already dealing with an injury to one of their top power hitters. Giancarlo Stanton has soreness in both elbows and hasn't swung a bat in three to four weeks, he revealed Monday morning. He said the injury is something he played through last season, and added he expects to do the same this year.