TORONTO — When Giancarlo Stanton paraded through the clubhouse during spring training in Florida, walking back and forth between his locker and the batting cage, he was often wearing gold headphones on his head.
It was almost as if he was preparing for his first real exposure to the pressurized New York market.
“Good times will be magnified, and so will the bad,” Stanton said recently. “The fans expect a lot, be prepared. I expect a lot, too, so we’re in the same boat.”