The Yankees will place catcher Gary Sanchez on the 10-day disabled list, per Buster Olney of ESPN.com (via Twitter). He had only recently returned from a groin strain.
Sanchez was in the news yesterday, of course, after he turned in an uninspiring performance in last night’s game that helped seal a Yankees loss. He seemingly failed to hustle on two plays that had a direct bearing on the outcome, leading to quite a lot of angst.
This morning, though, Jon Heyman of Fancred tweeted that there was some indication Sanchez may have been injured early in the contest. Olney confirms in his tweet that an MRI revealed an injury.
On the one hand, perhaps the news offers at least a partial explanation for Sanchez’s lackluster effort. On the other, it means that the Yanks are again going to lose one of their best hitters for an as-yet-unknown stretch.
Presumably, Kyle Higashioka will end up returning to play alongside Austin Romine while Sanchez is out. That is hardly an optimal situation for a team that now has six games to make up in the AL East.
Reaggravated his groin injury. Aka his teammates rightfully took out some frustration on him
He was probably late to the MRI
Comment of the year!
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10 day benching !
One of their best hitters? Why, because he hits an occasional HR?
If you think he only hits home runs then clearly you haven’t been watching baseball the past two seasons
Maybe last year, but clearly you haven’t been watching this year if you think there isn’t any truth to Sufferfortribe’s comment. He is far from the best hitter on this team this year.
Yes because lets just take the small sample size as an accurate representation of how good a player is. Stats only show how good a player did, not how good they are.
245 AB isn’t that small a sample size. And if you watch the games, he is constantly trying to pull the ball every time he swings. MLB pitching this season is eating him up low and away.
its a smaller sample size than 2016+2017. i do agree that he is having a tough year but weeks before his first injury i felt like he was coming around and squaring up the ball hard and getting unlucky. he was also showing an ability to lay off that pitch and he did that yesterday. his numbers arent good sure, but theyre are vindictive to how good of a hitter he is. just like stantons first 200 AB as a Yankee werent
“his numbers arent good sure, but theyre are vindictive to how good of a hitter he is.”
Critics are bad enough, but it’s really bad when even a player’s numbers get vindictive.
Small sample size or not, it’s erroneous to claim he is “one of their best hitters” because at this point, having never played a full season, we really don’t know WHAT kind of hitter he is.
And who is your team adam?
+lester
lol oops. i think the word i was looking for was indicative
+adam
i mean, we can at least agree that he is a much better hitter than the numbers show
Lesterdnightfly, well done. “Hello Baton Rouge…”
I am a fan of the Yankees, but I’m not sure how that’s relevant.
I’m not sure we can agree to that.
He came up hot in 2016, and played just 53 games, hitting 20 homers in that span. Very impressive stuff.
He played 122 games in 2016, missed a month due to injury, but compiled a decent .278 BA with 33 home runs, while struggling behind the plate.
And now he’s hitting .187 with 14 HR’s in 66 games, increasingly bad defense, and 2 stints on the disabled list.
I don’t agree we really have any idea what he REALLY is. He could rebound to become an All-Star, he could become the next Nick Johnson ( a guy who has a gifted bat but is always injured), or he could become a power-only bat like Adam Dunn.
There’s very little we can be sure of.
Other than the groin injury that put him on the DL twice in the last 30 days I’m not sure I get the Nick Johnson comparison, especially since Nick was hurt damn near every year with a myriad of different injuries.
Gary Sanchez put up 525PA last year and had a 126OPS+ with 33 homers and a total of 4.1bWAR. Mind you as a “catcher” which other than Posey and Realmuto name me a “catcher” who can hit that good?
Love the dislikes, please anyone explain to me how what I said was flawed? Manny Ramirez couldn’t field at all in LF for years and he and the Red Sox won 2 World Series with his bat.
It’s early in his career, but it could continue. Two DL stints in less than two years.
For the same groin injury. That’s hardly “fragile”
Mike Piazza:
Errors Committed as C
1993 NL 11 (1st)
1994 NL 10 (1st)
1995 NL 9 (3rd)
1997 NL 16 (1st)
1998 NL 11 (2nd)
1999 NL 11 (2nd)
2001 NL 9 (4th)
2002 NL 12 (1st)
Passed Balls
1993 NL 14 (2nd)
1995 NL 12 (1st)
1996 NL 12 (1st)
1997 NL 10 (3rd)
1999 NL 7 (5th)
2002 NL 8 (4th)
2006 NL 7 (5th)
MWeller77: “From the foot of Mt. Belzoni……”
Thanks.
Exactly. Everyone knew Piazza sucked as a catcher and if he were in the American League he would have been moved to DH. There’s a reason the Dodgers and Marlins traded him early in his career. Only the Mets were dumb enough to keep him behind the dish so long.
Yup..it eats him up low and away whether he’s trying to hit it or catch it..
This took me by surprise too. I thought he must be mashing, given how often I hear about him (both in general and from a NY friend), but now I’m wondering why Boone has kept him as the primary catcher. Having Romine (118 OPS+ in 41 games) in there every day seems like a distinct improvement over Sanchez (87 OPS+ in 66 games).
What happened? Have pitchers figured Sanchez out this year, or?
Some people have rough starts to the year while some have hot ones. I think the pitchers have figured out to through the down and away slider to him, which doesnt help. But as far as im concerned it is just a aberration in the numbers that doesnt truly reflect how good of a hitter he is. Just like how birds first 30 games or so this season wasnt. Just like how Didis month of May wasnt. Baseball is like that sometimes.
This isn’t just a rough start to the year though. It’s the end of July.
And just like 2016 where he hit /.299AVG/.376OBP/.657SLG/1.032OPS in 53 games and 229PA. He has just played in just 66 games this year with 279PA.
Neither sample is large which is why you see such variances.
He seems like a guy who let the hype get into his head. Oh, and he can’t stay on the field, and can’t play defense, so that certainly doesn’t help.
He should be a full-time DH.
Too bad Stanton is going to have that role on the Yankees for the next 10 years
Not necessarily. Stanton at least can play the outfield fairly well. If Sanchez is truly a DH, I could see a scenario where, in 2019, the Yankees outfield is Stanton/Hicks/Judge or Stanton/Frazier/Judge, or whatever.
You’re right that they want Stanton at DH, but the fact that he can play solid outfield defense makes the situation a bit more flexible than you intimate.
Can we PLEASE not go overboard and create a narrative that simply doesn’t exist. He has suffered ONE injury and that was a groin injury….to a guy that squats all the time. Maybe he was rushed to come back but let’s not label him as a guy “who can’t stay of the field”.
Also, Gary has his issues but the metrics says he’s still a positive defensive C.
Other than the fact that he’s blocked by Judge in RF please tell me why Stanton would need to be a DH starting now? He’s what, 28? Stoppppp.
Last season he missed a full month. Now he’ll miss what looks like a month and a half at least.
I wouldn’t label him as a career-injury-prone kind of player (because 2 seasons does not really constitute a career), but if he misses significant time next year, I would.
Yes, please don’t worry about recurring groin injuries…”to a guy that squats all the time.” Actually, go ahead and worry.
He had 1 groin injury and I think he was probably rushed back too soon. C have those and they go on to play like usual. But you obviously need to be at 100%.
No, because, in the last three years, he leads all MLB catchers in most offensive categories. Oh by the way, he’s also well above average defensively.
In other words, he’s been the best catcher in the whole wide world, since joining the majors. By quite a margin.
Maybe just maybe the most overrated player in baseball
I disagree in that I don’t think he’s necessarily that highly rated as a baseball player. His defensive shortcomings are no secret. He’s a poor baserunner (which, to be fair, applies to a lot of catchers). His bat, in a relatively small sample size, has looked like it could be special, particularly for a catcher.
He’s more highly rated as a fantasy player than actual baseball.
Seriously, dude didn’t hustle yesterday and is struggling at the plate. Let’s not try and act like dude isn’t still a great player.
Called up in 2016 and appeared in 53 games. Played 122 games his first full season. On the DL this year twice, and has played 66 games.
Since 2016…
-he’s 3rd overall in WAR among C behind Posey and Realmuto.
-He has more HRS than ANY catcher in baseball since 2016, although he only played 53 games in 2016.
-He’s top 10 in DEF WAR. Among C with at least 1,500 innings caught he’s allowed the fewest SB. That’s 29 catchers and only Leon, Castillo and Vasquez have had fewer SB allowed.
-Even with his DL stint he’s tied for the lead in HRS as a C.
He’s 25 yo. He needs to work on blocking at the plate. He needs to hustle 100% (not sure if his injury was a legit issue or not) but can we stop with the narratives? I mean anyone can look up his numbers and see that he’s still one of the top catchers in baseball.
His walk rate is up, His K rate is about career average. His BABIP is .194!! which is about 100 points lower than his career average. I truly think the use of the shift is what’s killing him right now. He’s not striking out more than usual (2% above career average) and his walk rate is at a career high 11%.
Reprehend him and hold him responsible but let’s stop with all this other nonsense. Sometime Yankee fans can be worse than Yankee haters.
Yeah 525PA from a catcher these days is pretty much a full season. He was clearly a good player when he put up 4.1bWAR last year.
If the future is now for the Yankees and their quest for a World Championship……Sanchez for deGrom…straight up…..worry about long term catching in the off season….they can and will win with Romine and his backup….and with the waiver deadline they can always pick up help to get them through the season.
That certainly would force the Mets hand in both the press and with their fans.
I know I’ll hear the howls about Sanchez being a great hitter, but the reality is the way he is performing defensively is the best you’re ever going to get. You have to ask yourself, if he wasn’t a catcher, would he even be starting on the Yankees given his BA so far?
Defense in the playoffs wins games more so than hitting and right now defensively he would be an absolute liability and frankly he couldn’t hit water if he fell out of a boat…..same goes for Bird….time to make a change and stop hanging on to “hope”!
Bold recommendation, rocky7. Unfortunately, I think a Mesoraco-to-NYY-for-salary relief is the more likely of longshots if each team sets aside the crosstown angst long enough to make a C-focused trade.
Lol… Ok Then!
Can the Red Sox be stopped from AL East championship?
As a Sox fan, “winning” the AL East is only to avoid play-in game that screws up your rotation. No saving grace for the Sox, the Yankees and the Indians who are in win now mode. Yes, each team is different but you don’t get this close to finish second. WS title or bust. Even Houston expects to win. The game has changed so you take your shot while you can.
I agree, lets see what the rosters look like on August 1st. Cashman should never be under rated at the deadline.
Sevy is NY’s biggest worry. Kid is as much a key to NY as Sale is to Boston.. They have to have him pitching well to make up the 6 games.
Luis Severino This Season
1st 18 Starts:
118.1 IP, 1.98 ERA, 6 HR
Last 3 Starts:
15 IP, 7.80 ERA, 6 HR
Luis Severino: 1st time in his career he’s allowed 2+ HR in 3 straight games.
Luis Severino This Season:
– 5 HR allowed in last 3 starts
– 6 HR allowed in first 18 starts
Cashman to the rescue? Where has he been the last 10 years?
Love Seve. He’s only that big because you don’t know what else you have. Tanaka and CC can be exceptional or annoyingly bad. Red Sox have injuries where their best move could be Pomerantz (pitching now), ERod or Wright. That depth if they are healthy puts a lefty in the pen (Price like last year?). A huge if I realize but without clearing out their system even more, returning players from the DL could be their big deadline deal.
The ghost of 2011 refuses to let me consider anything a sure thing until it’s mathematically clinched (especially with the lineup they have in NY)
Yes. The Yankees still have 10 games against the sox, and have shown they can beat them head-to-head.
I don’t think they will overtake them though, even if they went 7-3 in those contests. The Sox are a juggernaut.
All that said, the Yanks can and likely will win a one-game wild card, and depending on how they look at the end of the season, could certainly beat the Sox in a 5-game division series.
Sure they can.. Too much time left for the Sox to be anointed AL East Champs. 2018 is the 40th year anniversary of 1978. Sox haven’t won anything yet
Agree on it being too early but 40 years since 78? The teams have basically split this year. Doesn’t seem like it because the home team has won 2 of 3 each time and the last two series have been in NY. Next week will be fun.
Rocky although I totally agree with you on everything about Sanchez, Bird is actually starting to wake up. Your suggestion about Sanchez was mentioned by Arod on ESPN, though I think it was a bit tongue in cheek. Sanchez has had these hustle problems way back to the lower minors, and what happened to working so hard on his defense over the winter. I just don’t think the Mets would make that trade straight up regardless.
How about dealing Sanchez and a low level minor leaguer for J.T. Realmuto. I just don’t know where that stud pitcher they need is coming from.
Now you’re talking thegreatcerealfamine! My thoughts exactly as that was what I was alluding to with the acquisition of a catcher in the offseason, although it would be great if it happened sooner than later.
I think Sanchez would be terrific in Miami, and believe Jeter would jump at the chance to get a potential fan favorite in his system.
And you’re right about Bird, although the question with him is can he sustain and will he get hurt again forcing the Yankees to work around his injury.
I’m afraid this team is finally starting to show many weaknesses. They go from starting the first 30 games as one of the worst defensive teams to the stretch leading up to the break as one of the best. The opening series against the Mets and of course last night they play like the beginning of the season again.
Yeah 1 game is definitely a sign of impending doom.
+cereal
birds been awake since his two HR game against boston 😉
I’m not sure that trade works but I definitely think the Yanks will have to trade Sanchez at some point. Regardless of the lack of hustle, this guy is simply not an MLB catcher. The Stanton trade was great but it definitely has blocked moving Sanchez over to DH which is where he belongs.
Yankee1939
I agree. Miami has a good catcher. Other areas of weakness is Bird, Walker, Durey,
Hicks.
How is Hicks a weakness??
Did this guy just answer in the 3rd person first of all, second what games is he watching?…Hicks a weakness..really dude
And how is Drury a weakness when he is blocked from playing?
How are any of those players a weakness, except Walker maybe?
I can’t see a deal like that being straight up. Literally every part of Sanchez’s game has been downhill this year.
Sanchez is not getting you deGrom. Not even close.
Okay, the Mets have a black hole at the catching position and you have a 26 year old guy that plays the position.
Let’s not make deGrom into Cy Young……he’s good but he’s not the second coming of Sandy Koufax/No,an Ryan.
Wait…….the Mets might actually be dumb enough to make that trade.
Except that Sanchez is clearly not a catcher.
Why because he leads in Passed Balls? I guess pitch framing, throwing and game calling argent a part of catching, all of which Sanchez is very good at. I’m not saying he’s elite defensively, but it’s stupid to say he isn’t a catcher.
Actually his game calling is questionable since he is constantly expecting different pitchers than the ones that are thrown. Also, most of the wild pitches that he misses would have been caught or at least blocked by most catchers.
Mike Piazza:
Errors Committed as C
1993 NL 11 (1st)
1994 NL 10 (1st)
1995 NL 9 (3rd)
1997 NL 16 (1st)
1998 NL 11 (2nd)
1999 NL 11 (2nd)
2001 NL 9 (4th)
2002 NL 12 (1st)
Passed Balls
1993 NL 14 (2nd)
1995 NL 12 (1st)
1996 NL 12 (1st)
1997 NL 10 (3rd)
1999 NL 7 (5th)
2002 NL 8 (4th)
2006 NL 7 (5th)
That’s called a cross up and has nothing to do with game calling. Yeesh…look at dudes defensive numbers. Pass balls aren’t the only responsibility a C has defensively.
I am looking at his defensive numbers and they are way below his numbers last year. PB and WP are trending up, his caught stealing percentage is at its lowest, and the rest of his defensive numbers are headed south as well.
I agree, if Sanchez straight up (with how bad he’s been this year) can get DeGrom then the Mets need to fire all 3 guys filling in for Sandy.
Sanchez is better than Posada, defensively. And if Posada was a “liability” in the playoffs, it didn’t show. They won just fine with him catching.
There’s simply zero chance that either the Yanks or Mets would make a trade involving such all-star caliber, home grown players. Never has happened among rival teams in the same market.
George Kell for Rocky Colavito. The batting champ for the HR leader. It’s going back a ways. Detroit and Cleveland aren’t the same market, but overlap. Why limit it to just NY and CHI?
“Why limit it to just NY and CHI”?
Because historically, teams in the same market don’t make trades with each other, especially when major players are involved. I think in the history of the mets/yanks co-existence they’ve made maybe a handful of trades and none involved two all-star caliber guys in their prime.
Posted this in the “Latest on Cole Hamels” thread. Re-post here.
Statcast on Gary Sanchez’s game-ending, no-hustle groundout: Home-to-1st time: 5.39 seconds —His season averages on max-effort runs are a 4.53-second home-to-1st. mobile.twitter.com/_dadler/status/1021589373995896…
If he ran just a tad harder, game would have been a 7-7 tie. Instead it was 7-6 loss.
Sooooo close!!! —> mobile.twitter.com/_dadler/status/1021605743731126…
Perhaps most damning… This GIF makes Gary look bad… Watch, tell me what you see, and re-post. I’m a Yankee fan. This was the same game. mobile.twitter.com/RoFlo/status/102154856068336026…
My guess is that GS thought that the throw would be to first, but Robertson flipped to Adames who was late to 2nd, but, intelligently, threw to first..
My other guess is that this “DL stint” is just a message for his lack of effort on the passed ball in the first inning
he is not hurt!
this is how the Yankees bench players
who commited two inexcusable lack of
hustle plays in last nights game.
I mean he stopped running on the final
out of the game – benched by cashman!
the mets should watch and learn
I see an injured player. Because that’s what’s on the screen.
What do you see? Let me guess: Santa Clause?
Sanchez and Zunino of the Mariners have neatly identical stats this year.Both are highly regarded by their teams because of their pitch calling and defense.It doesn’t seem to bother their organizations at all that they have horrible batting averages.
Disagree totally about Sanchez and him being highly regarded because of his pitch calling and defense.
He leads the league in passed balls, and half the time those wild pitches charged to the. pitcher really are passed balls that any decent catcher would handle.
And, his biggest weakness is calling the game. Name a catcher more affected by the new rule about mound visits…..you can’t because he’s the king of mound visits. And those mound visits aren’t to discuss the place setting wedding gift the team is buying for their teammate who’s getting married. He’s not close to being on the same page as the pitcher. Have you ever seen Sale shake off any sign by either of his catchers on the Sox?
Romine by far is the better guy behind the plate when it comes to either aspect and there are better catchers than Romine by far across the league. Sanchez is killing the Yankees in ways only those who watch him game to game can tell.
I have nothing to say about Zunino as I don’t really know him.
You said it perfectly! If you watch ever game, you can clearly see how bad this guy is behind the plate.
He is absolutely brutal on both sides.
He’s absolutely horrible!!!!! 3rd in WAR among all C since his mid-season debut in 2016.
Paper stat vs the eye test.
And the only reason why he’s third is because he has far fewer ABs. If he got called up to start 2016, he’d have 300 more PAs, and he’d be 1st by a pretty good margin.
Yes. That’s what allows teams with advanced analytics departments to win: they use the paper test instead of the antiquated “eye test”.
In fact, at this point, even crappy execs, who’s teams never win anything, are smart enough to start paying attention to the “paper test”. That’s how obvious it is, to anyone but a few curmudgeons commenting on the Internet, that it GETS WINS.
You couldn’t be any more wrong about the game calling.
+MB923
People in this thread are just getting their knee jerking frustrations out. They did the same thing with Bird. I felt like it was only me and you who defended Bird after his first 30 games after coming off an injury. They more so want someone to point and wag their finger at than make an accurate assessment. This week its Sanchez, and somehow his game calling, arm strength, pop time, and pitch framing all went away after some passed balls and not running hard due to injury. They will move on to someone else eventually. Maybe next month theyll month or so the focus will shift to Hicks or Garnder if they hit a slump and say we need to DFA/Trade them for peanuts.
Nor are they factoring his ability to throw runners out or simply intimidate them to NOT run against him.
I was reading an article where it stated that the Yankees stress spin rate and are among the teams that throw the most off-speed pitches..
The Yanks starting staff:
-2nd in highest % of sliders thrown.
-4th in highest % of cutters thrown,
-2nd highest % of split fingers (Tanaka)
-13th highest % of curve balls
I wonder if there’s a stat of PB or WP per pitch variances?
Agreed. In today’s world no one uses perspective. They get raw data that’s given to them but because it’s given and not learned they can’t appreciate context and perspective.
They do tell Sanchez what’s coming, don’t they?
There isn’t…but that’s because advanced analytics doesn’t really pay attention to passed balls and wild pitches to begin with. They look at difficulty of plays made/missed, instead….which is far smarter.
And they make Gary a damn good catcher.
So tell me again why in the hell would Mets would trade deGrom straight up for a guy who’s terrible at his position with a batting average of .188? For one of the top arms in the game….
3rd in WAR among catchers since his mid-season debut in 2016. And he isn’t horrible at his position. Do the math buddy. Not that I think that trade would make any sense for the Mets anyway. They need more than an all-star catcher.
I can tell you’ve never played the game let alone as a catcher. There are so many reasons why a C visits the mound and LOTS of times it’s at the behest of the pitching coach or manager. They go over strategy, He might need to discuss conflicts in the scouting report vs what the pitcher wants to throw. He might need to speak to him if he feels the signals are being picked up. Mound visits should be the very last thing you judge a C by.
Right…
Sanchez for deGrom straight up…..
I’m just going to leave that alone
Ok, so the Yankees throw in that guy who’s hurt but plays second. That kid with a little potential…
Sanchez hurt again?
Straight up for deGrom.
Cespedes needs a golf partner
How about picking one team.
Really bothers you, huh?
Is there anyone more stupid then the people who think the Yankees are covering something up by putting him on the DL? Like seriously people?
Severing was chewing out his battery mate because why, he was lazy or he was hurt?
Let’s see….C goes on DL for 10 days…Comes back from the DL…Plays a couple of games. Back on DL.. He plays a position where he squats most of the time. Perfectly plausible. Never has a team imposed a 10 day penalty for lack of hustle. I doubt that’s what the move to DL is about.
Detroit dropped Bruce Rondon for the rest of the season, a couple years back, due to his lack of hustle.
Was that the year they had a era over 10? I meant for a significant caliber player.
Severing
Ha ha severino
Must be from him getting body bagged by Yankees on Twitter this morning when they gave the hustle award to Romine.
But really if this was the final straw for Sanchez who else would be in the pkg for deGrom and Mesoraco?
Yankees fans prior to 2018 season be like “hes the next yogi berra!” Actually Hitting .188 and is having a worst year than kole calhoun. Where would we be with out the evil empire?
A true top 100 prospect list.
That comparison is ridiculous and insulting to a yankee fan like myself. Please don’t group all yankee fans in with some of the dumb ones on here. Sanchez is still a great talent, he just needs a wake up call
Please don’t take these two weirdos seriously, cause imindless fabrications are typical of his trolling, and as for Bald Vinny just look at his constantly trolling Yankees fans.
Yanks fans call it trolling when others call it facts. Sorry to say yet another overrated yankee.
West Coast Bias is showing.
They call it as they see it..”T”
3rd in WAR among C since his mid-season debut in 2016. Currently tied for the lead in HRS among catchers. I’m going to keep saying that until it sinks in,
If I was to give you Albert Pujols WAR since his debut, would you think he is still an all star?
Haha….i gave you Sanchez numbers for the last 3 seasons (his career). I would say that’s a fair and relevant time period. In those 3 years which is really 2 full seasons for him, only two catchers have had more WAR.
You bringing up Pujols is beyond a waste of time.
yogi never struck out more then 38 times in a year!
He dogged it on both plays. Had nothing to do with an injury.
Just gonna leave this here for you to read since you blatantly didn’t read the article and are just trashing Sanchez..
that an MRI revealed an injury.
Have you ever tried to run with a strained groin? I have. You know what it looks like? It looks like you’re dogging it because it hurts so much you can’t even try to go full speed. Gary’s only crime yesterday was not being totally honest with the trainers. He shouldn’t have been in there past the first inning.
Shouldn’t Boone have been aware of an injury problem before 9th inning. Seems like he should have pulled him after first incident in the 2nd inning?
Most athletes try and play thru injuries. We see it all the time. The game says “play thru injuries. your team needs you”. They think they’re helping the team but they aren’t.
I’d rather see him playing than on the DL. Thanks for handing the Sox a game in the standings Gary!
Touché
For me, it brought back memories of Nomar pouting in the Sox dugout while Jeter was flying into the stands for foul balls.
I’m not sure how the MRI is taken by the NY fans but I know one thing, they will be watching if he jogs to first once he returns. Just like Boston fans they won’t be shy about voicing their opinions if he doesn’t bust it down the line.
Half game. The Sox did the work on the other half.
Guess that’s fair. I’ll take it.
When he works his way back the Yankees would be wise to keep him at AAA until his bat comes around. He’s no longer a player you automatically play when healthy.
Of course he is. He’s not going to get better crushing AAA pitching. Maybe his confidence, but I don’t think he lacks that at all.
What if minor league pitching is getting him out?
To all the Sanchez haters: Gary’s numbers so far are better than Posada’s, on both sides of the ball. Especially defensively.
And Posada has 4 WS rings. So the notion that Gary would be a liability in the playoffs, because he has a few too many passed balls, is beyond childish.
He provides more production out of the catcher spot than 90% of catchers on past WS winners, easy. He is a huge asset for the Yankees.
sanchez is not hurt!
this is how the Yankees bench players
who commited two inexcusable lack of
hustle plays in last nights game.
I mean he stopped running on the final
out of the game – benched by cashman!
the mets should watch and learn
Try reading the third paragraph of the article above if you missed it before, the part about today’s MRI revealing that he actually did re-injure himself last night.
Not saying that the MRI result is true or false, but remember Lance Armstrong? He never had an unquestionably positive test 😛
You only believe in what you want
“Why limit it to just NY and CHI”?
Because historically, teams in the same market don’t make trades with each other, especially when major players are involved. I think in the history of the mets/yanks co-existence they’ve made maybe a handful of trades and none involved two all-star caliber guys in their prime.
A team cannot place a player on the disabled list as a punishment. The Yankees would be in some trouble with the league offices, and also earn the enmity or the players union, if they tried to get away with that and got caught. But all that is moot… it says right in the article that Sanchez reinjured his groin in yesterday’s game, which was confirmed by MRI today.
that’s a little naïve isn’t it?
didn’t say the yanks would hang him out to dry
and how can it be moot – because as
you say an internet article says so?
Sorry LAD/SF, or CHC/StL or CLE/DET are not big enough rivalries for you. Few trades of star players occur in any rivalry. NY is not so unique.
I guess he’s really hurt
Out til late August/early September