Yankees place Stanton on IL with biceps strain

The New York Yankees placed outfielder Giancarlo Stanton on the 10-day injured list with a left biceps strain.

In a corresponding move Monday, the team recalled outfielder Clint Frazier from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.

The Yankees haven’t given any indication of how Stanton suffered the injury or how much time he could miss.

He’s the third Yankees outfielder to go on the injured list this young season, joining Aaron Hicks (lower back) and Jacoby Ellsbury (hip/plantar fasciitis).

Stanton played in Sunday’s 7-5 loss, drawing three walks and striking out twice.

The former National League MVP is batting .250 with seven walks in three games this season. Last year, his first in pinstripes, Stanton appeared in 158 games. He battled through a hamstring injury part of the year as the Yankees went through another season of outfield attrition. This is the first time since August 2016 that Stanton has been listed on an injury report.

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In Frazier, the Yankees are adding a corner outfielder who had his own injury ordeal in 2018. It was during an early spring training game when Frazier hit his head while trying to catch a ball at the wall. He was diagnosed with a concussion, and had symptoms off and on throughout the season before he was fully shut down last August.

Frazier was cleared during the offseason to return to full activities, and he participated in spring training. In 18 games in the Grapefruit League, he batted .143 with a .473 OPS, three doubles and eight RBIs.

The Yankees’ front office was criticized in the offseason for never being a real player in the Bryce Harper free-agency sweepstakes, despite having recent problems with outfield depth. The team felt comfortable going into the season with the players it had. Last week, as the Yankees were breaking camp, they traded with the Rockies for outfielder Mike Tauchman, a mostly unknown yet versatile defender who had just 52 games of MLB experience. A lefty-swinging outfielder who grew up wanting to one day wear pinstripes, Harper signed a 13-year, $330 million deal with the Phillies in February.

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