Sanchez has been reborn in San Diego.
Over nine games he’s hit four home runs with nine RBI and a robust 1.168 OPS. Keep in mind the Padres entire catching corps had his just two homers combined all season. Before Sanchez arrived Friars catchers were last in baseball in OPS, slugging percentage, and batting average. His production alone has pulled them out of the basement in every major statistical category.
All this begs the question: why? What happened to make Gary Sanchez remember just how good he is? As it turns out, all he really needed was to feel like he belonged somewhere again. “He’s been with a few teams this year and it hasn’t been comfortable for him. I really credit the guys in the room that made him comfortable and feel like he belongs here right away, guys like Manny, Tati, Nelson Cruz, Rougned Odor. I really feel like he’s felt at home here, maybe as opposed to some of the other places where he’s fighting for his job every single day, every single at-bat.”
It’s supposed to take a while for pitchers and catchers to get on the same page. The catcher has to know how the pitcher likes to attack hitters and the pitcher needs to have complete trust in the guy with the mask to think along with him. “Probably one of the hardest things to do is jump in mid-season as a catcher and trying to learn 15 different pitchers,” says Wacha, who spent nearly a decade with future Hall of Fame backstop Yadier Molina in St. Louis. “ was great. Very few shakeoffs, we had a plan going into it and we were able to execute it. I’ve been really impressed with how he’s been going about it. It’s been fun to watch.”
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