Yankees fans, media quickly tire of Giancarlo Stanton in Big Apple

Asterisk alert: Boston has played seven games against the Rays, expected to be among the worst teams in the American League, and two against the Marlins, expected to bring up the rear in the National League. It’s never just one guy. Stanton is coming off a homestand in which he was booed frequently and had a pair of no-hit, five-strikeout games.

You’re surprised Giancarlo isn’t higher, aren’t you?

Not only has he handled replacing an global legend like Jeter better than anyone could have imagined, Gregorius has improved year by year and shown Yankees fans flashes of the Jeter of old.

In the past week alone, Stanton struck out 16 times which is more than Joe DiMaggio’s 1941 season in which he played in 139 games. “So what do you expect?”

New York Yankees outfielder Giancarlo Stanton is not anxious about his struggles to start the 2018 season. Last season they would surprise a lot of us, but there’s going to be none of that this season. We’ve got each other’s back. He cares. He’s trying.

This’s just one particular scenario. “And it will happen in a big way”. It’s clear that Stanton is pressing at the plate and it can be seen through his plate discipline.

Had he accepted his trade to the Cardinals – a deal the teams struck, pending his approval – Stanton wouldn’t be facing such hostility. He’s hitting.167 which is pathetic, but he also has three home runs, seven RBI, and a respectable.429 slugging percentage. These are all reasons why Giancarlo Stanton, the New York Yankees’ prized offseason acquisition, might be struggling so mightily.

“I guess the boos comes with the territory”.

Plenty of top-talent names have come to NY and gotten off to rough starts. J.D. Martinez is going through all the same things and he’s hitting.226/.286/.419 (92 wRC+) with a 31.4% strikeout rate. The Red Sox announced that shortstop Xander Bogaerts has a cracked bone in his left ankle.

And how about this-8 of his 9 hits this season have gone for extra bases. I’ll go with the latter.

On a team chock full of generational talents, and at a position that boasts the same level of extraordinary skill, Gregorius has become an underappreciated, underrated asset. He’s slumping now and you know what? Then the downturn came, and quickly-he saw his OPS drop by almost 100 points in a diminished, if still somewhat productive, 2016 campaign in which Toronto made its second consecutive ALCS. That was also the season in which he established a 56-game hitting streak, considered one of baseball’s unbreakable records. But perhaps Stanton’s most recent and worst phase can serve to show that the slugger has indeed endured serial failure before, survived it and moved on to thrive.

That’s just the way it works here (in New York), but you’ve got to continue to go out there and keep doing your thing. “Season is much longer than a week, so a couple good games can turn it around and help us win”, he said. “It will be alright”.