Marlins’ Giancarlo Stanton still wants to play this season
By Hayden Kane
There are only 15 games left in the Major League season. It would presumably make little sense, then, for the Miami Marlins to have Giancarlo Stanton play again this season after he sustained facial fractures and dental fractures after taking a pitch in the face this week.
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If it is left up to the player, however, Stanton would still like to get back in the lineup this season. He indicated as much this weekend, with the memory of this incident still fresh in everybody’s minds.
According to Joe Frisaro of MLB.com, Stanton would still like to play this season:
"Team trainer Sean Cunningham accompanied Stanton back to Miami on Friday.“Sean says [Stanton] is feeling much better,” manager Mike Redmond said Saturday. “He’s still sore, obviously. He has more appointments on Tuesday. He should be getting his stitches out on Tuesday.“He’s in good spirits. He’s been watching the games. We’ll probably know a little more on Tuesday. For me, knowing G, and the kind of guy he is, he’s going to want to come back and play. But we’ll see if that’s even a possibility.”"
Because the team is still conducting its final tests on Stanton and gathering information on his status, the Marlins probably will not rule out a return just yet. But there seems to be little incentive to put Stanton back out there after this incident in games that will otherwise mean nothing.
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