Sources: Yanks' Stanton to be activated off IL

NEW YORK -- New York Yankees designated hitter Giancarlo Stanton is expected to travel disconnected the injured database Monday to marque his play debut against the Los Angeles Angels, sources confirmed to ESPN, giving the nine a surplus of lineup options 70 games into the season.

Stanton was sidelined done Sunday with tendon injuries successful some of his elbows. He played done symptom successful the joints successful 2024, close done the postseason, erstwhile helium clubbed 7 location runs successful 14 games, but helium was unopen down from swinging a bat successful January until precocious March.

He was eligible for reinstatement from the 60-day injured database successful precocious May, but the Yankees, not hopeless for discourtesy and with aggregate choices for DH, did not unreserved him back. Instead, the 35-year-old Stanton began a rehab duty past week, appearing successful 3 games for Double-A Somerset aft an extended play taking swings disconnected machines and successful unrecorded batting signifier sessions. He went 3-for-11 with a double, 4 RBI, a walk, and 3 strikeouts for Somerset.

Meanwhile, the Yankees discourtesy has thrived without the accomplished slugger whose 429 vocation location runs pb each progressive players. The squad ranks 2nd successful the majors with a 123 wRC+ and .794 OPS with Ben Rice, Aaron Judge and Jasson Dominguez chiefly cycling done the DH spot.

That's wherever things go analyzable for the Yankees. Stanton's instrumentality will, arsenic it stands, contiguous a regular lineup puzzle for manager Aaron Boone to lick -- not lone successful the DH slot, but successful the outfield wherever helium has Judge positive 3 players (Dominguez, Cody Bellinger and Trent Grishman) for 2 spots (center tract and near field).

Last week, Boone told reporters that Rice could commencement games astatine catcher to alleviate the logjam and get his bat successful the lineup much often. Rice, 26, was drafted arsenic a catcher and spent astir of his minor-league vocation down the plate, but he's yet to marque a commencement astatine catcher for the Yankees since making his large league debut past season. Rice has tallied conscionable 6 ⅔ innings down the sheet successful the majors.

Austin Wells and J.C. Escarra has frankincense acold divided the starts astatine catcher, with Wells starting 52 of the team's 70 games down the dish.

SNY archetypal reported the quality of Stanton's activation.