Somebody could also be overselling their consumer.
Francisco Marquez, the agent for former Yankee Gary Sanchez, talked up the catcher to The Athletic in the course of the Winter Conferences on Tuesday — and shaded Sanchez’s former group within the course of.
“A very powerful side of the 2022 season was that on the finish of the season Gary was in a position to lastly and fully shake off the emotional baggage he had acquired throughout his earlier two seasons with the Yankees,” Marquez mentioned. “Whoever will get Gary this offseason will profit from the rebirth of the Kraken.”
After an awesome begin to his Yankees profession that featured All-Star nods in 2017 and 2019, Sanchez struggled mightily with strikeouts and poor protection behind the plate. He was typically the topic of ridicule and boos from Yankees followers as a consequence of his poor play, and was benched in the course of the 2020 playoffs and the 2021 Wild Card sport.
Sanchez was not precisely reborn throughout his first yr in Minnesota. In 128 video games, the 29-year-old hit .205 with 16 residence runs and a .659 OPS, the latter two numbers representing full-season profession lows.
Marquez pointed to superior statistics, saying Sanchez’s “exit velocities final season in contrast nicely to these of [Willson] Contreras and [Christian] Vázquez, and that his anticipated slugging proportion and weighted on-base common have been considerably greater than his precise numbers,” per The Athletic. Per Baseball Savant, his anticipated batting slugging proportion ranked 84th within the majors amongst all batters with not less than 10 plate appearances and his barrel charge was forty third.
Sanchez is presently a free agent after spending one season with the Twins. The Yankees traded the catcher to Minnesota after the 2021 season, together with Gio Urshela, for Josh Donaldson, Isiah Kiner-Falefa and Ben Rortvedt.
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