Death, taxes, Giancarlo Stanton spending significant time on the injured list.
These three certainties exist not only in life, but baseball. Stanton, despite devastating power and 453 career home runs, cannot stay off of the trainer’s table. He has appeared in 140 or more games a year just four times in 16 seasons. Last season, tennis elbow/tendinitis in both elbows limited Stanton to 77 games, though he did hit .273 with 24 home runs and 66 RBI and a strong 158 wRC+.
Cut to today, and it’s hard to imagine Stanton not missing extended time once again in 2026.