Considering the type of 2017 season Gary Sanchez had, making his first All-Star team, winning a Silver Slugger Award and helping the Yankees reach the ALCS — 2018 can be chalked up as a bust.
With a new manager to lean on in Aaron Boone, Sanchez battled multiple groin injuries to play in a total of only 89 games, slashing a dreadful .186/.291/.406 while striking out 94 times in 323 at-bats.
Naturally, Sanchez’s poor defense, highlighted (or should I say low-lighted) by a league-worst 18 passed balls and 45 wild pitches (16 passed balls and 53 wild pitches the previous year), -6 Rtot and 30 percent caught stealing as compared to 38 percent in 2017, only compound the misery that was Sanchez’s recent campaign.