Yankees, Aaron Boone faces a critical test in the resolution of Big Gary Sanchez Problem | Bleacher's report
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The New York Yankees have a Gary Sanchez problem that goes far beyond a sore throat and well beyond Beyond a game that may not have been wasted more efforts of their 25-year-old receiver.
It is not a match in July. There are games in October, and whether the Yankees can win a championship with him behind the plate.
"They can not win in the playoffs with Sanchez," said a scout for the National League on Tuesday.
I'm not sure I bought this because Sanchez was the first receiver of 12 of the 13 games played by the Yankees last October, when they took the Houston Astros to the seventh game of the series of championships of the American league. They have a 35-18 record in the 53 games that he started behind the plate this season, which is better than their record in games where he was not the beginning receiver (28-17 beginner Tuesday).
I buy Sanchez's continual defensive difficulties and his problems of concentration and agitation gave the Yankees manager, Aaron Boone, the first big problem to solve at the beginning of the season, which was a first season ultra-smooth.
Because the two games of the 7-6 Yankees defeat on Monday against the Tampa Bay Rays were so inexcusable, even after discovering that Sanchez was struggling with the issue of the groin that l? returned to the list of injured. Sanchez allowed a race to score from second base when he did not move fast enough to recover a past ball (his 10th of the season, tied at most in the majors). And he was removed to first base for the game's final, on a game where the Rays tried unsuccessfully to get Aaron Hicks to second base.
It's easy to jump on Sanchez this year, because his stick average of .188 from .278 last year) and .699 OPS (down from .876) have made it more difficult to Ignoring transgressions in other parts of his game.
It's easy to jump on Sanchez, because he's going through the Yankee Farm system he sometimes had similar problems, the Yankees using benches, suspensions and "downtime" to convince him that he was to grow up. And because some of the problems they've tried to correct then – the concentration gaps and the bad reception technique – have been so obvious this season.
"What you see now is what we all saw in the minor leagues before 2015" Sanchez returned to the list of injured on Tuesday, but his play remains a major concern for the Yankees. “/>
Sanchez returned to the list of injured on Tuesday, but his room remains a major concern. for the Yankees. Mike Ehrmann / Getty Images
The Yankees then clung to Sanchez, believing that his strong right arm and powerful bat would be worth it. This helped despite the benches and suspensions, Sanchez never had the reputation of being a bad boy, just like the one who needed to mature.
Two years ago, it seemed like they were right to wait. Sanchez came to the major leagues and made 20 home homesticks in just 53 games, including 11 in a superb 15-game streak in August.
It was easy to love Sanchez in 2016. When I made a story about him in September Bleacher Report, I quoted a scout from the American League who pointed Monument Park and said says: "It's there that he could end."
Then 2017, when Sanchez became the second receiver born in the Dominican Republic to make a star team (Tony Pena was the first ). On the other hand, his defense was enough of an issue that Yankee manager Joe Girardi publicly reprimanded him and even gave him a bench for a match in August.
Boone was more publicly supportive, to the point of telling reporters Tuesday at Tropicana Field that he would not have tried Sanchez for Monday's transgressions. Sanchez did not play Tuesday, but only because he came back on the list of injured with the recurrence of an injury to the groin that had already spread him for 20 matches before his return over the weekend.
To his credit, Sanchez did not blame his lack of scrambling on the painful groin, which he says he felt he tightened up on the ball passed in the first inning.
"An injury is never an excuse," said Sanchez, according to George A. King III of the New York Post . "If I'm in the field, I'm good at playing. My answer is the same [as Monday] I could have done a better job."
Sanchez did not as successful this year as a judge, but his 15 circuits have always left him close to the top for the big league receivers. Bereswill / Getty Images
Even that was not enough for many Yankee fans, or for the rival scouts who got tired of watching Sanchez mess up over the years.
"He still owns it," a scouting American league said. "But then, it happens again."
Yet this same scout said, "I would still take the bat."
Four scouts interviewed on Tuesday about Sanchez were unanimous in still believing in Sanchez's offensive potential. Some speculated that his struggles had come from trying to shoot the ball too often, while others wondered if his problems on the defense evolved into a problem of trust that also hurt his attack.
the Yankees. Their other young players cause them little trouble, Aaron Judge being one of the most respected players of the game and Gleyber Torres integrating perfectly after a promotion in late April in the minor leagues.
Sanchez is the one who complicates things. He has always been.
When it was like that in the minor leagues, they decided it was worth the aggravation that he was doing to find out how much he could become a player. They may well decide again, but after what happened Monday, it's a question to which they must again answer
Danny Knobler covers Major League Baseball as a national columnist for Bleacher Report
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