OFFICIAL 2018 New York Yankees Offseason Thread: We Need Pitching

[essential1]

If it happens. I called it.

 

[Bend_The_Knee]

Let's sweep the Rays.

 

[Bend_The_Knee]

Gary Sanchez is cringeworthy behind the plate

 

[kingfoamnyc]

Lazy ****

 

[onewearz]

wow , thats unacceptable

Sanchez behind the plate is gonna bite us in the *** again later this year

 

[onewearz]

not for nothing tho, his time was up but , u think that kinda laziness is going down with Girardi ?

i need Boone showing alittle more authority and less of how big a bubble he can blow ...

 

[pauliepeppas]

Gary has the worst approach at the plate I can remember from a player. Looks like he started playing baseball a week ago

 

[Bend_The_Knee]

Get Severino off the mound already.

 

[YouGotThese]

Stanton is on fire tonight!!

 

[kingfoamnyc]

Zero confidence in Hicks

 

[nick.]

 

[YouGotThese]

Zero confidence in Hicks

Worst AB I’ve seen all season

 

[bm35]

gary’s fat *** can’t make it to first ? smh

 

[jaysonny3]

SMFH @ Sanchez not busting out to first, may have been safe

 

[nick.]

Gary needs to be benched for that ****

 

[onewearz]

Sanchez loafin again .. whatya know

dam son, thats really just inexcusable . if he busts it, he's most likely got it. somebody, CC, Brett, OUR MANAGER ... somebody needs to pull this dude into a closed room and bring him back to earth .. wow ....

 

[YouGotThese]

Trade Sanchez for whatever at this point!

 

[donewithjs]

I'm over Gary.

 

[jaysonny3]

Sanchez with the Robby Cano syndrome; 6 back after tonight , no way we're catching the Sox if they play .575 to .625 ball the rest of the way (and that is a slight fall off the (.700 win pace)); Division will be won by who ever wins 108-110 games first which is f'ckn crazy

 

[kingfoamnyc]

Sick of Sanchez. Trade his ***

 

[essential1]

calm down guys

 

[yankeesking92]

And y'all were getting on me before when I said to trade and off Gary, he's a cancer.
Fire Boone too, mans got his position solely off what he did in 03, without that, he was nothing but a forgettable Yankee. Man can't manage, the teams talent has them where they are, not Boone, **** him.

 

[air spider 777]

Gary needs to be benched for that ****

 

[essential1]

And y'all were getting on me before when I said to trade and off Gary, he's a cancer.

Bad take then, and still a bad take now. No matter what anyone's one game reaction is.
Want to bench him for not running it out? Fine.
The past ball is on everybody. Severino for missing the sign and throwing the wrong pitch. On Andujar when the ball was closer to him than Sanchez and in front of him and he stayed glued to 3rd when his guy already had the base. And on Sanchez for not running full speed on it.

Even in an significantly off year, Gary is still at the very worst an average catcher on both sides of the ball.
1st & 2nd Year, Gary's CS % was 41% & 38%, well above the league average.... This year it is 26%. Get rid of Dellin's SB (7 of 8 ), Gary is at 30.5%, 13th in the league. Runner stealing off Dellin is hardly our catcher's fault. Romine is 4 of 5 against with Dellin

Last year Gary was 9th in Defensive Runs Above Average with 10.6 in 2017, this year 5.0 so far and 14th. 8 of the 14 ahead of him have over 100 more innings behind the plate.

Defensive Runs Saved Gary is 22nd with 2. 0 is Average, 5 is above average. There are 11 with 5 or more right now

From The Ringer article about Gary's offense and defense:
https://www.theringer.com/mlb/2018/5/8/17330508/gary-sanchez-new-york-yankees-catcher-hall-of-fame
Whatever the catcher’s teammates and coaches are saying, this feels like a big deal. Last season, Sánchez allowed 69 combined passed balls and wild pitches, while the likes of Buster Posey, Austin Hedges, and Yadier Molina—baseball’s best all-around defensive catchers—were all in the mid-30s. Plus, the one misplayed short hop in the playoffs had a huge impact on the Yankees’ season. But in aggregate, how big a hole is Sánchez’s blocking putting the Yankees in? According to BP, last year it was 2.6 runs, a little more than a quarter of a win.

Furthermore from The Ringer
Sánchez was among the worst blockers in baseball last year, but that plus throwing arm was rated ninth out of 73 catchers with 1,000 chances or more, almost exactly erasing the deficit caused by his blocking. And his receiving skills have improved, to the point where he was 4.6 framing runs above average in 2017, 21st out of 73 catchers with 1,000 chances or more. All told, Sánchez was an average-to-slightly above-average defensive catcher in 2017, not the butcher he’s purported to be.



Now on offense:
T-1st In HomeRuns
9th in 2B
7th in BB
4th in Runs
6th in RBIs
12th in Plate Appearances
13th BB%
33rd K%
1st in ISO (ability to generate XBH, basically a power stat)
54th of 55 in BABIP
45th BA
36th OBP
17th SLG
45th in SO
26th wRC+
12th WAR

7th in uBR (stats on number of runs above or below average on non stolen base baserunning plays)
30th on Hard Hit Ball %
34th on Medium Hit Ball %

34th on Swing % outside zone
53rd on Pitch % in Zone
20th in Swinging Strike %


Even in a really crap year. Gary is in the middle defensively of the top 30. And ends up in the middle of top 30 in WAR. Over the 1-1/2 plus previous to this season, this is a really unprecedentedly bad year for Gary. Yet somehow still ends up being in the middle where it counts on both sides of the ball.

Trading Gary is still a bad take.

 

[essential1]

Since 2016, and mind you Gary played 53 games in 2016:
15th in Plate Appearances
1st in Home Runs
3rd in Runs
6th in RBIs
18th in BA
18th in OBP
1st in SLG (.530, next guy is at .485)
1st in wRC+
3rd in WAR (Top 2 have 400 & 500 more plate appearances)