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Is New York Yankees Prospect Gary Sanchez a Bust?

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After hitting just .048 (1-for-21) in 13 spring training games, the Yankees assigned their 23-year old prized prospect back to Triple-A Scranton/ Wilkes-Barre, where he’ll start the 2016 season.

How does this effect the Yankees?

For starters, it’s starting to look more and more like Austin Romine – who was once an afterthought down in the Yankees pipeline – is the new front-runner to land the backup role behind Brian McCann. So far this spring, Romine is hitting .