The All-Star break has arrived and this is the perfect time to take a step back and review the first half of what has been a very successful 2018 Yankees season to date. We’ll review the team and hand out some letter grades (relative to expectations), because why not? We begin today with the catchers.
Coming into the 2018 season, the catcher position was expected to be a strength for the Yankees. Gary Sanchez established himself as one of the top backstops in baseball last season — certainly as the top power-hitting catcher, at the very least — and the expectation was he would again produce at that pace this year, if not improve.