{"id":57882,"date":"2023-03-31T14:37:22","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T18:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=57882"},"modified":"2023-03-31T14:37:22","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T18:37:22","slug":"gary-sanchez-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2023\/03\/31\/gary-sanchez-giants\/","title":{"rendered":"Gary S\u00e1nchez in Agreement With Giants on Minor League Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gary S\u00e1nchez has signed a minor league contract with the<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2023\/03\/29\/opening-day-sf-giants\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"> San Francisco Giants<\/a>. According to Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic, S\u00e1nchez will report to the Giants Spring Training facilities in Scottsdale, Arizona. The deal is pending a physical but Sanchez can opt out if he&#8217;s not in the majors by May 1.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Free-agent catcher Gary S\u00e1nchez in agreement with Giants on minor-league contract, pending physical, source tells <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAthletic?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@TheAthletic<\/a>. Will report initially to team\u2019s spring-training home in Scottsdale, then join a minor-league affiliate. Can opt out if not promoted to majors by May 1.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ken_Rosenthal\/status\/1641865718235815936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 31, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Gary S\u00e1nchez to the Giants<\/h2>\n<p>S\u00e1nchez was seen as a top prospect in the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2023\/03\/30\/volpe-era-begins\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">New York Yankees<\/a> farm system. The moment he made his MLB debut, he came one of the best young catchers in the game. S\u00e1nchez hit 20 home runs as he hit .299\/.376\/.657 in 53 games as a rookie. Then over the next three seasons, he averaged 30 home runs while earning two All-Star selections.<\/p>\n<p>However, the long-term effects of his shoulder surgery in 2018 got the better of S\u00e1nchez. He&#8217;s already showing signs of below-average defense as a catcher. Although, it may have decreased some of his power at the plate too. His numbers say so, hitting .195\/.287\/.394 with 20 home runs per season.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, he was traded from the Yankees to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2023\/01\/24\/michael-a-taylor-twins\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Minnesota Twins<\/a> in exchange for Gio Urshela, Josh Donaldson, Isiah Kiner-Falefa and Ben Rortvedt. The 30-year-old hit .205\/.282\/.377 with 16 home runs, 61 RBI with an 89 OPS+ in 128 games for Minnesota. It was the third consecutive season where the backstop had an OPS+ below 100, which is the league average. Furthermore, his Defensive Runs Saved went from a brutal -10 in 2021 to +1 in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>With S\u00e1nchez at the facilities to work on his game, San Francisco currently have Joey Bart and Robert Perez taking care of catching duties. Blake Sabol is the third catcher\/utility man.<\/p>\n<p>Players mentioned:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/sanchga02.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-03-31_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gary S\u00e1nchez<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/u\/urshegi01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-03-31_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gio Urshela<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/d\/donaljo02.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-03-31_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Josh Donaldson<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/k\/kineris01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-03-31_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Isiah Kiner-Falefa<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/rortvbe01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-03-31_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ben Rortvedt<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/bartjo01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-03-31_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joey Bart<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=perezro01,perez-019rob,perez-014rob,perez-011rob&amp;search=Robert+Perez&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-03-31_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robert Perez<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/sabolbl01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-03-31_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blake Sabol<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary S\u00e1nchez has signed a minor league contract with the San Francisco Giants. According to Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic, S\u00e1nchez will report to the Giants Spring Training facilities in Scottsdale, Arizona. The deal is pending a physical but Sanchez can opt out if he&#8217;s not in the majors by May 1. Free-agent catcher Gary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3686,"featured_media":57031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31,2,1071,35],"tags":[5534,6253,40,2792,4809,5766,252],"class_list":["post-57882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-giants","category-featured","category-mlb","category-news","tag-ben-rortvedt","tag-blake-sabol","tag-gary-sanchez","tag-gio-urshela","tag-isiah-kiner-falefa","tag-joey-bart","tag-josh-donaldson"],"modified_by":"Matt Graves","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3686"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}