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5 Yankees who haven’t lived up to the hype in 2020

By Rucker Haringey

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - AUGUST 01: (NEW YORK DAILIES OUT) Gary Sanchez #24 of the New York Yankees in action against the Boston Red Sox at Yankee Stadium on August 01, 2020 in New York City. The Yankees defeated the Red Sox 5-2. (Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - AUGUST 01: (NEW YORK DAILIES OUT) Gary Sanchez #24 of the New York Yankees in action against the Boston Red Sox at Yankee Stadium on August 01, 2020 in New York City. The Yankees defeated the Red Sox 5-2. (Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images) /
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Giancarlo Stanton, New York Yankees
ST PETERSBURG, FLORIDA – AUGUST 08: Giancarlo Stanton #27 of the New York Yankees looks on during Game 1 of a doubleheader against the Tampa Bay Rays at Tropicana Field on August 08, 2020 in St Petersburg, Florida. (Photo by Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images) /

2. Giancarlo Stanton

Stanton put in a ton of work this offseason to slim down so he could become more durable in 2020. The work didn’t pay off for the highly paid slugger. Instead, injuries limited Stanton to just 69 at-bats on the season.

The good news is that Stanton hit the ball relatively well in limited action. His .261 batting average and four home runs didn’t light the baseball world on fire, but he did enough to earn a WAR of 0.5 on the campaign.

His extended absence from the lineup was still a death knell for the Yankees during the regular season. The team simply can’t make up for him missing so many games on an annual basis. Stanton’s salary will continue to drag the Yankees down for years to come both on and off the field.

Stanton has a chance to redeem himself with a good playoff run, but there’s no reason to think he can stay healthy for what could be the longest postseason in history. The Yankees will have to settle for patches of production from their highly-paid slugger for the foreseeable future. That wasn’t good enough to earn the team a division crown in 2020.

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