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TAMPA — Giancarlo Stanton has not swung a bat in three to four weeks, and it remains to be seen when he will do so again.

The Yankees slugger arrived at camp dealing with the equivalent of tennis elbow in both elbows, something that he said he managed to play through for “most of” last season (including a monster postseason) before it flared up again in the offseason.

The club wants to give him time to recover now so Stanton does not have to miss time once he starts the season, but whether he will be able to do so on Opening Day is in doubt.

“We’ll see how that goes,” Stanton said Monday, when asked if he would be ready for March 27 against the Brewers.

The 35-year-old DH described tennis elbow as tears in your tendon and something that presented a constant level of pain — which he said was “very high in general.”

As for whether the injury would eventually require surgery?

“If you blow it up, which overdoing it would,” Stanton said. “But obviously not what you want. That would be the same if anything were to tear off. But that’s not a worry.”

The Yankees can ill afford to lose Stanton for a long stretch.

They already have to deal with the loss of Juan Soto, and while they acquired Cody Bellinger and Paul Goldschmidt over the offseason to help make up for it, Stanton provides an important presence in the middle of the lineup when healthy.

As the Yankees held the first full-squad workout on Monday at Steinbrenner Field, Stanton only did some jogging on a backfield before returning inside to continue getting treatment, which included forearm work, tissue work and other exercises.

“It’s definitely not just soreness,” Stanton said. “It was a manageable thing [last year]. That’s how last year and this year will go.

“It’s not a, ‘When did it feel good, when did it feel bad?’ There’s always a pain level there. You got to deal with that. It’s just the wisest point to give time right now.”

Dr. Guillem Gonzalez-Lomas, a sports orthopedic surgeon at NYU Langone, indicated that the repetitive nature of baseball (i.e. taking a hundred swings per day) can cause injuries like this, but it would “rarely require surgery.”

The course of treatment typically includes work in the training room, stretching and strengthening the tendon without stressing it and sometimes injections.

“That’s usually enough to get somebody through a season,” Gonzalez-Lomas said in a phone interview. “In general, these are safe conditions to play through. They’re not going to cause any major, permanent problem. But they can be symptomatic and how long they take to get better is really case-by-case dependent.”

Stanton, who hit seven home runs in 14 games during a red-hot playoff run to help the Yankees reach the World Series, said he was playing through the pain in October but never considered not being out there.

“Big G battles through a lot,” Aaron Judge said. “For him to turn the switch on there and perform the way he did, that’s why he’s one of the greatest players in the game. … He’s a little banged up right now, but he’ll be back out there soon.”

The Yankees are hoping that some time off now, even if it bleeds over into the regular season, can help limit the time Stanton is down once real games start.

“This is just a time to get as much time as I can before — the idea is not to take downtime [during the season],” Stanton said. “This is the smartest time during a shorter offseason window to be able to do that.”