Why Yankees’ Giancarlo Stanton won’t play the field for a while

Yankees right fielder Giancarlo Stanton said after Saturday’s 5-3 win over the Rangers that he’s still nursing …

NEW YORK — Get used to Shane Robinson.

Yankees slugger Giancarlo Stanton‘s tight left hamstring isn’t better yet, he told reporters following Saturday’s 5-3 win over the Rangers at Yankee Stadium.

It’s going to keep him at designated hitter rather than a corner outfielder for a while longer, he added.

“It’s fine,” he said. “I’m managing. I’m going to be DH for a little bit and keep getting stronger.”

That means to expect more Robinson in the Yankees’ outfield as they await the returns of Aaron Judge (fractured right wrist) and Clint Frazier (post-concussion symptoms).

Stanton has DH-ed in seven of the last 11 games.

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The problem: Neither Judge nor Frazier seem particularly close to coming back. Judge hasn’t starting swinging a bat yet. Frazier hadn’t resumed baseball activities as of early this week. Frazier is at the team’s training complex in Tampa.

Robinson has started the last five games in the outfield and seven of the last eight. He played center field Saturday with Neil Walker getting his first career start in right field.

He entered hitting .053 (1-for-19) with one RBI and a walk over his previous eight games before going 0-for-2 with a walk and a strikeout on Saturday.

Robinson started the season as the team’s eighth outfield option, behind starters Judge, Aaron Hicks and Brett Gardner; and backups Stanton, Jacoby Ellsbury, Frazier and Billy McKinney, whom the Yankees traded alongside Brandon Drury to the Blue Jays at the deadline in a deal that landed them J.A. Happ.

Clearly, the hamstring isn’t bothering Stanton at the plate.

He hit a solo shot in the first inning on Saturday as the DH and has homered in four of his last five games. In 15 games since July 27, he’s hitting .267 with with six homers and 14 RBI.