Josh Donaldson was not overly interested in making any proclamations about 2023, so his manager did it for him.
TAMPA — Josh Donaldson is ready to let his play do the talking.
“I think you’re crazy to think that a bounce-back is not in there offensively,” Aaron Boone said Tuesday after a workout at Steinbrenner Field. “This guy still has bat speed and, again, is super talented. Physically, at this point, [he’s] in a much better place than he was a year ago right now.” “Obviously, I enjoy hitting,” Donaldson said. “I’ve put a lot of time and energy into that, so it definitely was frustrating going through that last year. But at the end of the year, I tried to make an honest assessment of where I was at. Put my big-boy pants on and get ready to work.” — though he wasn’t alone — when he was 5-for-29 with one extra-base hit and 16 strikeouts, which made him the target of growing boos from the Yankee Stadium crowd.
Boone also pointed to Donaldson being “not far removed from 2021, where he was still a wrecking ball.” That year with the Twins, Donaldson hit .247 with 26 home runs and a .827 OPS in 135 games. He is further removed from his MVP season in 2015, which was the second of three straight All-Star campaigns, but the Yankees would certainly take the 2021 version this year.
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