How Giancarlo Stanton became the tone-setter for the fast-starting Yankees

Source: New York Post

Forget about the blistering start at the plate. Forget about the multi-hit performances in each of the Yankees’ first five contests to start the year and the history Giancarlo Stanton made — as the fifth player in franchise history to accomplish that feat — along the way. A few years ago, and as recently as last year and this spring, there wasn’t a guarantee he’d be in this spot in the first place.