It’s hard to imagine a player of his stature having a poorer start with a new team than Giancarlo Stanton has had in his first week as a Yankee.
In his first 10 games in pinstripes, Stanton has batted .167. He has three home runs, two of them on opening day, and has driven in seven runs, but his on base percentage-plus-slugging is a middling .700.
Oh, and he has struck out 20 times in 42 at-bats, including 16 times in the six-game homestand that concluded on Sunday with an 8-7 loss in 12 innings to the Baltimore Orioles.