Giancarlo Stanton Yet To Discuss Future With Marlins

LOS ANGELES, CA — Giancarlo Stanton finished the 2017 baseball season one long ball shy of sports history but still remains uncertain about his future with the Miami Marlins. The 2017 major league home run king told late night funnyman Jimmy Kimmel on Tuesday that he has not yet met with new team owners Derek Jeter and Bruce Sherman to discuss if he'll stay in Miami. Stanton racked up more homes runs and RBI than any other hitter in all of Major League Baseball this year with 59 and 132 respectively.

"It does seem crazy because that's all I've known," he said. "We're going to get together after the World Series. Everything stays quiet until then."

Kimmel was incredulous.

"That is just unbelievable to me. You would look so good in a Mets uniform, you know that?"

Fortunately, Stanton said he enjoys "beating up on the Mets" too much.

As for his childhood favorite: "I grew up a Dodgers fan" Stanton conceded.

However, he wouldn't rule out a move to the Red Sox either: "I can be a DH," he said of a possible role as a designated hitter in Boston. "I think the day games you could be DH, wake up early just focus on hitting."

Kimmel noted Stanton's 13-year, $325 million contract, which was the largest in all of sports.

He asked: "When you signed that contract did a lot of people come with ideas on how they could help you spend your money?"

Stanton acknowledged that he received a number of "the greatest business ideas ever" since signing the deal.

While he grew up a Dodgers fan, Stanton said he won't necessarily be pulling for the team to win the World Series over the Houston Astros.

"I'm at a crossroads because growing up you always want them to win and then you have Houston with what happened to that city too. It would great for them to win. So I'm going to just sit back and enjoy the show," Stanton insisted.

Kimmel introduced Stanton as the "most feared power hitter in baseball" and asked the slugger to explain what it's like to hit a towering home run.

"As hard as I hit them, it feels like a cloud, like a feather," he shared. "The ones that hurt are the ones that are down on the hands and your hands are ringing all the way up your arms. But when you get a really good one it's like you gotta just sit back and watch it go. There's no real contact to be honest."

Despite his success, Stanton confessed that he is superstitious when he is on a home run streak like the 19 he hit in August.

"That was unreal. I had to do everything the same. I had to make sure like okay if I didn't hit one in two days then erase what I'm doing and do something else. But if I kept on a little flow, I was doing exactly the same thing. If that's wearing the same underwear, wearing the same socks, I was in there."

Do you wash everything or does that take the magic away?" Kimmel asked.

"It just depends you never know," he replied.

While he wanted to finish the season with 60 home runs, Stanton said he didn't want to diminish his accomplishment of hitting 59 home runs.

"But it is a failure in a way," Kimmel countered, to which the slugger acknowledged: "At the end of the day I failed this year."

Watch some of Stanton's 2017 home runs:

Video courtesy Major League Baseball and the Miami Marlins. Giancarlo Stanton #27 of the Miami Marlins reacts to fans on the dugout steps after striking out in the ninth inning during play against the Atlanta Braves, ending his bid for 60 home runs for the season at Marlins Park on Oct. 1, 2017 in Miami. (Photo by Joe Skipper/Getty Images)