In what seems likely to become a yearly ritual within the New York sports media, a star player is latched onto as a possible trade piece to be sold off for spare parts to fill out the rest of the roster. This winter, once again, that someone seems to have become the highly-polarizing catcher Gary Sanchez.
In a vacuum, Sanchez’s season would not be considered a failure by any means: he hit 34 home runs in 106 games (a 52 home run pace over 162 games) while slashing .232/.316/.525, good for a 119 OPS+ and 116 wRC+.