
Giancarlo Stanton’s insane stretch offers hope for Francisco Lindor
NY Post
It isn’t just that Giancarlo Stanton is swinging a smoking-hot bat now, or that he looks utterly impossible to retire at the plate, or that he is playing with the kind of swagger he used to have in surplus back when he terrorized the National League in the Miami baseball witness protection program.
Stanton, right now, can serve a higher purpose. A unifying element, if you will.
Cade Cunningham, almost inarguably the best player in the East this season, is likely out for the remainder of the regular season. That’s the word out of Detroit following the depressing news that Cunningham punctured a lung when he took a knee to his side Tuesday from Washington’s Tre Johnson while chasing a loose ball.

Wednesday was another positive day at Yankees camp. For the first time since March 6, 2025 — an outing in which he knew “something wasn’t right,” which began a weeks-long saga that ended on the operating table for Tommy John surgery — Gerrit Cole was back on a mound and facing hitters in game action.











