Gary Sanchez’s agent blames the Yankees for ‘mental baggage’

Perhaps someone is overselling their customer.

Gary Sanchez’s agent, Francisco Marquez, spoke positively about the catcher to The Athletic during the Winter Meetings on Tuesday, while disparaging Sanchez’s old team.

“The most significant component of the 2022 season was Gary’s ability to totally and completely shed the emotional baggage he had accumulated during his first two seasons with the Yankees,” Marquez stated. Whoever acquires Gary during the offseason will profit from the Kraken’s revival.

After a stellar start to his Yankees career, which included All-Star honors in 2017 and 2019, Sanchez suffered greatly with strikeouts and bad catching. Due to his terrible performance, Yankees fans frequently jeered and jeered at him, and he was benched throughout the 2020 playoffs and the 2021 Wild Card game.

Sanchez was not exactly resurrected in Minnesota during his first year there. In 128 contests, the 29-year-old batted. 205 with 16 home runs and an OPS of.659, both of which are career lows for a complete season.

Gary Sanchez throughout his tenure with the New York Yankees.

Marquez cited advanced statistics, stating that Sanchez’s “exit velocities last season were comparable to those of [Willson] Contreras and [Christian] Vázquez” and that his expected slugging percentage and weighted on-base average were significantly higher than his actual numbers, according to The Athletic. According to Baseball Savant, he rated 84th in the majors among batters with at least 10 plate appearances for his anticipated batting slugging percentage, and 43rd for his barrel rate.

Sanchez is presently a free agent after playing for the Twins for one season. The Yankees transferred the catcher and Gio Urshela to the Twins following the 2021 season for Josh Donaldson, Isiah Kiner-Falefa, and Ben Rortvedt.

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