Ever since Gary Sanchez returned to the New York Yankees, his arm is there but his accuracy is definitely still on the disabled list.
Gary Sanchez made his first career trip to the disabled list in after the fifth game of the season for the New York Yankees. A right biceps strain kept their star catcher sidelined for quite some time.
And he’s back. So naturally he would get right back in the swing of things, right?
Since Sanchez has returned, his bat has picked right back where he left off when he first joined the team last August. However, his arm is a completely different story.
Sanchez has been firing the ball at top speeds, per usual. However, his accuracy is off.
And when I say off, I mean WAY off.
In 13 games at catcher this season, Sanchez has allowed eight base runners to steal on him, while catching only two. That means he’s got a 20 percent chance of throwing out runners stealing.
Last season, even though he only played 36 games, he still threw out 41 percent of runners attempting to steal.
Even on the one runner he did throw out since his return, his throw was arrant and required Starlin Castro to jump out of his shoes to haul down the laser throw. Castro ultimately saved the play to tag out Alex Bregman.