Tennis elbow, it’s tears in the tendon, so it’s not when did it feel good, when did it feel bad. There’s always the pain level there, and you got to deal with that,” Stanton said of elbow issues that have plagued him since last season.

Stanton said he dealt with the condition, which is in both elbows, most of last season — including in October, when he was by far the Yankees’ best offensive performer as they reached the World Series. He said he has not swung a bat in the last “three to four weeks.” It is not clear when he will begin doing so.

Tennis elbow is almost always the result of injury from repeated action, such as swinging a tennis racquet or, in Stanton’s case, a baseball bat, said Dr. Guillem Gonzalez-Lomas, an orthopedic surgeon at New York University Langone Health.

Stanton said surgery is not necessary as of now, but that could surface as an option if he ends up "overdoing it."

New York Yankees star slugger Giancarlo Stanton could miss Opening Day due to tendinitis in both of his elbows, he told reporters at spring training on Monday morning.

Yankees manager Aaron Boone raved about non-roster invitee Dominic Smith after the club’s first full squad workout of the spring on Monday. “The guy has been a really good hitter throughout his career,