Giancarlo Stanton advice from the Yankees legend who lived it
BOSTON Reggie Jackson has been where Giancarlo Stanton is these days.
“You look back at it and laugh, but you feel for the guy who is going through it,” Jackson told The Post on Tuesday. “It’s a big deal to him, but it only becomes a big deal if it is in September and October. It’s a big deal then. year was 1977, Jackson’s first with the Yankees after signing a five year deal for $2.96 million as canada goose black friday sale a free agent. On June 2, Jackson woke up hitting.245 with eight homers, 23 RBIs and an.814 OPS in 43 games, 25 of them Yankee victories.
Entering Tuesday night’s game against the rival Red Sox at a cold and dank Fenway Park, Stanton was hitting.167 (7 for 42) with three homers, seven RBIs, a.700 OPS and an alarming 20 strikeouts. Since homering twice on Opening Day in Toronto, Stanton was batting.108 (4 for 37) with a homer, three RBIs, 19 strikeouts and a.449 canada goose outlet nyc OPS.
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Stanton was loudly booed on the recent homestand in which the Yankees were 3 3 and he batted.107 (3 for 28) with a homer, three RBIs, whiffed 16 times and posted a miserable.381 OPS.
“It’s part of the deal, part of New York and part of the Yankees,” Jackson said of the negative attention attached to Stanton, who waived a no trade clause to move from South Beach, where very few cared about the Marlins, to The Bronx, where canada goose outlet uk sale the Yankees dominate millions of lives daily. “It’s what makes the Yankees the Yankees, the demand for Canada Goose Parka excellence after all the Hall of Famers and 27 canada goose coats world canada goose outlet parka championships. You have to have it inside like [Derek] Jeter, [Andy] Pettitte, Whitey [Ford], Mickey [Mantle] canada goose outlet new york city and the Babe.”
According to Jackson, the canada goose factory outlet better the competition the easier it will be for Stanton to climb out of the ditch he is in.
“The push is important. Greatness is innate cheap canada goose and it needs confrontation in order for greatness to happen,” Jackson said. “I don’t get to the level of Mr. October without the competition against me. When I was with the A’s, it was Oakland against uk canada goose outlet New York.
“You can test canada goose uk outlet me canada goose outlet black https://www.mild-und-leise.de friday and kick me but watch out when I get back when, not if,” Jackson said. “I think Stanton has a meanness in him. People make a lot of the strikeouts, but he is going to get a canada goose black friday sale chance to do some things because he isn’t coming out [of the lineup]. It is what it is. You make 30 [million] bucks a year, people think you are supposed to hit every day.”
Stanton signed a 13 year deal before the 2015 season for $325 million.
As for striking out, Jackson knows about that feeling, because with canadian goose jacket 2,597 he is canada goose outlet sale the all time leader in whiffs.
“I remember a game where I struck out the first three times and the fourth time canada goose outlet toronto factory I cheap canada goose stepped out of the batter’s box and looked up at the barrel of the bat. It was a brand new bat that day and there wasn’t a mark on it,” Jackson recalled. “I had struck out three times and didn’t canada goose outlet store take cheap Canada Goose a strike. All the strikes were on swings and misses. The barrel was still canada goose clearance brand new.”
Stanton’s track record a career.267 hitter with 270 homers, 679 RBIs, a.359 on base percentage and a.912 OPS in eight plus seasons indicates he will exit the funk. Yet, until he does, the attention and negativity that surrounded Stanton going into Tuesday’s canada goose jacket outlet action will only increase.
