Marlins manager Don Mattingly knows Giancarlo Stanton to be a streaky player. He saw it up close the previous two seasons in Miami and doesn’t want to overreact to the ugly first few weeks of Stanton’s tenure with the Yankees.
But Mattingly can relate to the 2017 NL MVP on a more specific level, having also been a key player under enormous expectations to produce for a contending team. Even if this slump seems familiar, the pressure to snap out of it is more intense than anything Stanton has experienced before.
“It’s New York,” Mattingly told Greg Joyce of the New York Post on Monday.