Gary Sanchez has had a rough second semester of the year. Since the shortened 2020 season started in July, he was never able to get in an offensive groove with the New York Yankees. The small sample size noise and some clear issues to make consistent contact (he ran a career-high 36 percent strikeout rate) left him with a .147 batting average and a 69 wRC.
His struggles were so bad that Yankees’ skipper Aaron Boone decided to go with the “hot hand” approach and benched Sanchez for most of the playoffs, in favor of his backup Kyle Higashioka.