Giancarlo Stanton made it back from his sprained right knee in time to play nine games before the end of the regular season.
He hit fairly well in those 34 plate appearances, and Aaron Boone liked what he saw from Stanton in left field.
“Is it perfect? No,” Boone said twice of Stanton’s situation on Wednesday.
Though it was hardly the way the Yankees would have liked to have seen Stanton’s season play out, Boone believes Stanton got enough work in to set himself up for a productive postseason.
“I do,” Boone said when asked if he thought Stanton got enough at-bats before Friday’s Game 1 against the Twins in The Bronx.