Gio: How can anyone be surprised with Giancarlo Stanton's injury?

As others were praising Giancarlo Stanton for having a great season after taking the winter to slim down and transform his body, Gio was waiting for the other shoe to drop, and for Stanton to go on his seemingly annual trip to the IL.

That shoe dropped on Sunday, when Stanton was placed on the IL with a hamstring strain, expected to miss a month of action in a big blow to the Yankee lineup.

Gio was in no way celebrating the news, but he was hardly surprised, as he had spent time taking bets on the show weeks before over what injury Stanton would inevitably suffer during the season.

“We seem to predict every one of these, not that it’s hard,” Gio said. “You can predict that the sun is gonna come up as well, and that generally happens.”

Stanton’s bat will be sorely missed by the Yanks, especially as the likes of Juan Soto and Alex Verdugo fight their way through their own respective slumps, but Gio said it was something that had to be expected by the Yankees given Stanton’s injuries that have piled up since 2019.

“I don’t want the guy to get hurt,” Gio said. My whole point was, how can we take two and a half months of him staying healthy and just assume he was good? Because we were told he changed his offseason routine? OK, fine. Prove to me that you can go a whole regular season without pulling a muscle before I believe that you can. And he couldn’t.”