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Will The Miami Marlins Get Their All-Star Slugger Back For This Series?

Lastly, we close with the first 2017 edition of The Injury Chronicles of Giancarlo Stanton. Stanton left Tuesday night’s pummeling of Philadelphia early, which seemed innocuous enough until fans found out it wasn’t just the MLB equivalent of a Little League Mercy Rule. The Miami Marlins are looking at another Stanton injury, and this series is the test of whether fans need to be worried or not about it.

I feel I should clarify at this point that every indication is that it is a minor injury. Not a big deal. Could have played yesterday, club is just being cautious, etc. No need to worry, just enjoy Ichiro, and so on.

But no Stanton injury has ever been minor. So yeah, I’m a little concerned.

Stanton has been explosively productive for the past week plus, especially since sliding into the No. 2 hole in the order. That much was true heading into the Philadelphia series, and then he kept it going in the first two of that one. He has been the definition of streaky for so much of his career, that even a couple games off for a minor ailment could throw a wrench in the slugger’s swing. The Marlins can also ill afford to lose another starting position player period, let alone their best player.

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Seeing Stanton return this weekend, and return without acting like he’s worried about his leg, will provide Marlins fans a very quick answer as to whether they can dream of June being any better than May.

Not to mention whether or not we’re going to have anything to look forward to during All-Star Week that has to do with the Miami Marlins roster.