Gary Sánchez
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Sánchez playing for the Tampa Yankees, 2012
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| Born: December 2, 1992 Santo Domingo, Distrito Nacional, Dominican Republic |
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| MLB statistics (through 2015 season) |
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| Batting average | .000 | ||
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Gary Sánchez (born December 2, 1992) is a Dominican professional baseball catcher for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB).
Professional career
Sánchez was signed by the New York Yankees as an international free agent on June 20, 2009 for $2.5 million.[1] Prior the 2010 season, Baseball America ranked him as the Yankees seventh best prospect.[2] He began his professional career playing for the Gulf Coast Yankees. On August 18, 2010 he was promoted to the Staten Island Yankees of the Class A-Short Season New York–Penn League.[3] He finished the season hitting .329/.393/.543 with eight home runs and 43 runs batted in in 47 games.
Prior to the 2011 season, Sánchez was ranked among the top prospects in baseball.[4][5][6] He was rated as the second best prospect in the Yankees organization and 30th best prospect overall by Baseball America.[6][7] He spent the season playing for the Charleston RiverDogs of the Class A South Atlantic League. He played in 82 games before suffering a season ending finger injury.[8] He finished the season hitting .256/.335/.485 with 17 home runs and 52 runs batted in.
Prior to the 2012 season, Sánchez was ranked as the Yankees fourth best prospect by Baseball America.[9] He began the 2012 season with Charleston, and received a midseason promotion to the Tampa Yankees of the Class A-Advanced Florida State League.
Sánchez began the 2013 season with Tampa. After batting .254 with 13 home runs and 61 RBIs, the Yankees promoted him to the Trenton Thunder of the Class AA Eastern League on August 3.[10] He was added to the Yankees' 40-man roster after the 2013 season.[11] Sánchez began the 2015 season with Trenton, and was chosen to represent the Yankees at the 2015 All-Star Futures Game.[12] After the Futures Game, the Yankees promoted Sánchez to the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders of the Class AAA International League, where he hit a home run in his first at-bat.[13]
After the conclusion of the RailRiders' 2015 season, the Yankees promoted Sánchez to the major leagues.[14] He made his major league debut as a pinch hitter on October 3.[15] The Yankees included him on their 25-man roster for the 2015 American League Wild Card Game.[16] The Yankees then assigned Sanchez to the Arizona Fall League (AFL) after the season.[17] He was named the Fall Stars Game Most Valuable Player, and the second-best prospect in the AFL by Baseball America.[18] As a result of his strong season, the Yankees felt comfortable trading fellow catcher John Ryan Murphy during the offseason.[19]
References
- ↑ SOURCES: YANKEES SIGN DOMINICAN CATCHER GARY SANCHEZ FOR $3.1M[dead link]
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External links
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- Career statistics and player information from MLB, or ESPN, or Baseball Reference, or Fangraphs, or Baseball Reference (Minors)
- Staten Island Yankees' Sanchez already thinking big
- Gary Sanchez on TwitterLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
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- 1992 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Santo Domingo
- Major League Baseball catchers
- Major League Baseball players from the Dominican Republic
- All-Star Futures Game players
- New York Yankees players
- Gulf Coast Yankees players
- Staten Island Yankees players
- Charleston RiverDogs players
- Leones del Escogido players
- Tampa Yankees players
- Trenton Thunder players
- Toros del Este players
- Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders players
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