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TAMPA, Fla. — Giancarlo Stanton wasn’t at his Yankees clubhouse locker on Sunday before, during or after any of the three media availabilities. The oft-injured slugger who’s in an indefinite holding pattern due to tennis elbow in both arms wasn’t at Steinbrenner Field or his Tampa residence.

Giancarlo Stanton is out with injured elbows and his return date is uncertain. However, the Yankees might have found the right candidate.

New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone provided an increasingly worrisome injury update on designated hitter Giancarlo Stanton, who has been battling soreness in both elbows this spring. Boone says that Stanton won't start baseball activities in the immediate future.

Tennis elbow is almost always the result of injury from repeated action, such as swinging a tennis racquet or, in Stanton’s case, a baseball bat, said Dr. Guillem Gonzalez-Lomas, an orthopedic surgeon at New York University Langone Health.

Stanton said he dealt with the condition, which is in both elbows, most of last season — including in October, when he was by far the Yankees’ best offensive performer as they reached the World Series. He said he has not swung a bat in the last “three to four weeks.” It is not clear when he will begin doing so.

Craig Pille, MD, Primary Care Sports Medicine Physician at NYU Langone Health joins Brandon London to break down Giancarlo Stanton's injury. Dr. Pille describes what may be going on with Yankees' Giancarlo Stanton after Aaron Boone described it as,