Boone has not said how he plans to use Gallo, but he will have options. Gardner, who turns 38 next month, made a costly two-base error with the bases loaded on Thursday. “He really jumps off the screen at you with how physically impressive he is with his athleticism.” “I knew his reputation as an athlete and a defender, but seeing him in Texas when we went there for that four-game series, to see him run, to see him move in the outfield, to see him throw, you really took notice of it,” Boone said. This is his seventh season in the majors but is only 27 years old. He won a Gold Glove in right field last season and has made at least 30 career starts in left, center and both corner infield spots. Gallo is also huge (6-foot-5, 250 pounds) but his size obscures his dexterity in the field. Gallo almost never grounds into double plays (just nine in more than 2,100 career plate appearances), and leads all left-handed hitters in homers off lefty pitchers since 2017, with 44. There is more to like about Gallo, a Las Vegas native who honed his swing as an amateur with help from the former Yankee Jason Giambi, who ran a hitting facility that employed Gallo’s father as an instructor.
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