Aaron Boone and Yankees Once Again Mishandled Giancarlo Stanton's Mysterious Third Injury

Though Aaron Boone has done a masterful job of piloting the Yankees through a hurricane of injuries, he's done an incredibly poor job handling the injuries themselves, and the discourse surrounding them.

One need look no further than the curious case of Giancarlo Stanton, whose injuries have been publicly mishandled by Boone, who's misinformed us not once, not twice, but three times over.

It's been one misstep after another for the sophomore skipper. After Stanton recovered from the biceps injury that initially landed him on the injured list, it was revealed that the shoulder was the real problem.

And when the shoulder was good and recovered, the slugger got hit in the knee, ultimately leading to tightness in his calf. Somehow, a 10-Day IL stint has been prolonged into a two-month ordeal, with less than no clarity being provided every step of the way. And that's on Boone.

Of course, the latest injury now means that the clock on his rehab stint has to be reset. Stanton believes it stems from his HBP at a BP session prior to the rehab beginning; so why was he sent out Monday night in the first place?

In other words, Stanton now has to spend five empty days on the IL before starting another rehab assignment.

He'll be shut down for 7-to-10 days regardless, just to be safe.

How the team has butchered this process so wildly after an injury that was the result of a "funky swing" is beyond comprehension.

When none of the people involved can explain what's got wrong, you're usually not among the company of competency.

Boone has proven himself to be a quality manager at the MLB level, but his verbal handling of Stanton's slew of injuries has been downright awful.