TAMPA — A pinstriped update on the 2019 Home Run Derby, in the wake of Thursday’s announcement there will be $2.5 million in prize money, including $1 million for the winner, added to the proceedings:
— Aaron Judge is very likely out.
— Giancarlo Stanton is a maybe.
— Brett Gardner is in.
“I’m in the Derby,” Gardner proclaimed loudly to The Post, despite attempts to ignore him and interview Stanton instead. “I’m doing the Derby this year.”
OK, players still have to get invited, and the beloved lifelong Yankee who set a personal single-season high two years ago when he went deep 21 times probably won’t make the cut, which prompted Gardner’s self-deprecating crack.