Giancarlo Stanton out for a month in latest Yankees injury calamity

An offseason spent transforming his body still was not enough to steer Giancarlo Stanton clear of the injured list.

The Yankees placed Stanton on the 10-day IL on Sunday with a left hamstring strain that he said is going to cost him around four weeks.

“My feelings don’t really matter in this time,” Stanton said after the Yankees’ 3-1 loss to the Braves. “It’s going to be about four weeks, I gotta do what I can to get there.”

The 34-year-old DH had gotten lighter over the offseason in hopes of keeping his lower body fresh, and the early results were encouraging.

In 69 games, he was batting .246 with 18 home runs and a 120 OPS-plus.

But as Stanton rounded third base to score from second on Gleyber Torres’ double Saturday night, he winced, and by Sunday, he was back in an MRI tube.

“Anytime our guys go down [it’s tough], but knowing what G’s been through and some of the lower-body things he’s had to deal with,” manager Aaron Boone said. “But hopefully it’s something that’s not too significant and just a bump in the road along what’s been a strong season for him.”

Stanton received a PRP injection, which comes with a 48-hour shutdown before he can start exercises aimed at getting him back as soon as possible, during Sunday’s game to help with the healing.

Last season, Stanton missed six weeks with a left hamstring strain — he said this one is “a little better than last year’s” — and was a shell of himself when he came back.

He also missed just over a month in 2020 with the same injury.

Suddenly, with injuries to Stanton and Anthony Rizzo (arm fracture) over the past week, the middle of the Yankees’ lineup has taken a serious hit.

“[Stanton] has been that force that you want in the middle,” Boone said. “He’s been a threat every day. He’s gotten a lot of big hits for us, obviously hitting the ball out of the ballpark. So these things happen over the course of the year. You’re going to go through times where you get dinged up and for the most part we’ve been pretty fortunate on that front.

“It’s just on other guys to have to step up a little bit. Along the way, hopefully it creates an opportunity that somebody can take advantage of in some way and carve out a little more of a role for themselves.”

Had Jasson Dominguez not just landed on the IL at Triple-A for a significant oblique strain that is expected to keep him out two months, he likely would have been the replacement for Stanton.

Instead, the Yankees will ask multiple players to fill the void.

They acquired J.D. Davis from the A’s on Sunday to help take some of the DH duties while Aaron Judge and Juan Soto will get occasional days there (though Boone noted Soto does not love DHing).

When they do, that means more starts in center field for Trent Grisham.

“This should give [Grisham] that uptick of playing time,” Boone said. “You never want it to come at the expense of something, but we do feel like in Trent, we got a really good player that’s sitting there that can help us win games.”