Often knocked for defense, Gary Sanchez, with some help, making a seamless transition behind the plate with the Padres
the last few years has been the glovework and not an all-or-nothing bat that’s looked like vintage Sanchez through his first nine games with the Padres.
The most basic: Sanchez’s 1.89 ERA in 52 1/3 innings behind the plate lead all Padres catchers. Nola is next followed, by the injuredMetrically speaking, Sanchez’s minus-1 defensive runs saved in an extremely small sample is leaps and bounds ahead of his last year with the Yankees , and his blocks above average is at least trending in the right direction, up from minus-27 in 2018 to minus-16 in 2021 to minus-1 so far with the Padres.
Melvin added: “In a place like New York, you can get some criticism pretty quickly. But I like his skills behind the plate right now.”Far from it, considering Nola and the coaching staff’s presence in game-planning, as well as the advent of pitchers now having the ability to call their own pitches through PitchCom, especially with someone with as diverse a repertoire as Darvish.
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