Gary Sanchez

Bats R Throws R6'2" 230 lbBorn 1992 Santo Domingo, D.R.Debut 2015Team MIL2x All-StarContract 1 y/$1.5M (26) 2026: $1,500,000

Awards: Silver Slugger, TSN All-Star

Projections

2027 NEXT+ 122.9FIELD+ 96.6 at CTotal 1.22 WAR

Season	PA	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	ISO	wOBA	K%	BB%	HIT+	WAR
2026	150	133	28	5	0	6	13	41	0	0.214	0.297	0.399	0.696	0.185	0.305	27.3	8.9	97.2	0.42
2027	202	175	36	6	0	7	22	53	0	0.207	0.304	0.373	0.678	0.167	0.302	26.1	10.7	91.9	0.43

Projected rates are per plate appearance or batter faced; counting stats scale with projected playing time. Statcast measurements inform these projections as inputs and are reported as measurements, not projected.

Most similar through age 32

His ten closest age-32 comparables averaged 61 HIT+ the next season; 6 of 10 played. Averages cover only the players who got a next season, which is why the played count matters.

#	Player	Through	HIT+ then	Next season	Next PA / BF
1	John Stearns	1984	104.4	did not play
2	Ozzie Virgil	1989	103.2	-128.9	5
3	Frankie Hayes	1947	101.0	did not play
4	Hank Gowdy	1922	102.0	113.0	213
5	Geovany Soto	2015	102.0	121.0	86
6	Virgil Davis	1937	113.0	61.2	272
7	Harry Bemis	1906	102.8	79.6	189
8	Travis d'Arnaud	2021	96.2	119.0	426
9	Welington Castillo	2019	96.9	did not play
10	John Romano	1967	123.5	did not play

Batting

Year	Team	G	PA	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	HIT+
2027 proj			202		36	6	0	7		0	22	53	0.207	0.304	0.373	0.678	91.9
2026*	MIL	69	220	32	39	8	1	10		0	39	44	0.220	0.368	0.446	0.815	129.6
2025	BAL	30	101	13	21	2	0	5	24	0	4	27	0.231	0.297	0.418	0.715	100.6
2024	MIL	89	280	30	54	7	1	11	37	0	27	76	0.220	0.307	0.392	0.699	96.9
2023	SD	75	267	33	52	9	0	19	47	0	21	67	0.217	0.288	0.492	0.780	111.6
2022	MIN	128	471	42	86	24	0	16	61	2	40	136	0.205	0.282	0.377	0.659	89.4
2021	NYY	117	440	54	78	13	1	23	54	0	52	121	0.204	0.307	0.423	0.730	99.2
2020	NYY	49	178	19	23	4	0	10	24	0	18	64	0.147	0.253	0.365	0.618	71.5
2019	NYY	106	446	62	92	12	1	34	77	0	40	125	0.232	0.316	0.525	0.841	118.4
2018	NYY	89	374	51	60	17	0	18	53	1	46	94	0.186	0.291	0.406	0.697	86.5
2017	NYY	122	525	79	131	20	0	33	90	2	40	120	0.278	0.345	0.531	0.876	126.2
2016	NYY	53	229	34	60	12	0	20	42	1	24	57	0.299	0.376	0.657	1.032	166.6
2015	NYY	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	-124.0
Career		860	3313	417	657	120	3	189	509	6	312	888	0.224	0.309	0.461	0.770	107.1

Pitching

Year	Team	W	L	ERA	G	GS	SV	IP	BF	HR	BB	SO	PITCH+
2025	BAL	0	0	36.00	1	0	0	1.0	7	1	1	0
Career		0	0	36.00	1	0	0	1.0	7	1	1	0

Statcast

Year	PA	EV	LA	Barrel%	HardHit%	Whiff%	Chase%	xBA	xSLG	xwOBA	Sprint
2026	220	88.5	15.8	9.0	37.3	27.3	21.2	0.230	0.432	0.360	24.6
2025	101	93.3	18.4	10.9	57.8	26.7	24.3	0.240	0.421	0.315	24.6
2024	280	90.0	16.2	10.5	44.2	30.4	26.8	0.218	0.415	0.315	24.8
2023	267	90.1	16.5	15.4	44.6	27.6	26.3	0.227	0.504	0.342	24.9
2022	471	90.5	14.0	13.6	49.3	30.8	28.9	0.216	0.448	0.321	25.2
2021	440	89.5	20.5	13.7	42.0	29.4	25.2	0.222	0.453	0.334	25.5
2020	178	91.8	19.2	17.6	50.0	34.0	29.1	0.193	0.430	0.314	25.0
2019	446	91.0	19.2	21.1	41.9	32.3	33.0	0.251	0.564	0.373	25.5
2018	374	90.3	14.2	15.2	41.6	29.2	30.1	0.221	0.468	0.343	25.9
2017	525	90.8	13.1	12.8	42.9	28.5	32.5	0.288	0.552	0.385	26.1
2016	229	92.7	7.9	17.8	48.6	30.5	31.3	0.272	0.567	0.392	26.2
2015	2	96.9	68.9	0.0	100.0	50.0	33.3	0.004	0.006	0.004

Fielding

Year	Team	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Runs saved
2025	BAL	C	22	175	176	3	4	0	0.978	-0.3
2025	BAL	P	1	1	0	0	0	0		-0.0
2024	MIL	C	28	235	205	10	5	2	0.977	+0.2
2024	MIL	1B	4	13	7	1	0	0	1.000	+0.5
2023	SD	C	66	527	574	39	3	2	0.995	+2.9
2022	MIN	C	91	714	678	37	4	4	0.994	+1.5
2022	MIN	1B	1	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	+0.0
2021	NYY	C	110	879	932	54	6	1	0.994	-6.2
2020	NYY	C	41	322	347	14	6	2	0.984	-4.5
2019	NYY	C	90	743	793	32	15	5	0.982	-4.4
2018	NYY	C	76	653	731	35	6	5	0.992	+3.3
2017	NYY	C	104	881	935	60	13	4	0.987	-0.2
2017	NYY	1B	2	3	7	0	0	1	1.000	+0.1
2016	NYY	C	36	316	304	34	3	1	0.991	+0.0

Runs saved covers the Statcast era; for catchers it includes framing.

Minor leagues

Year	Level	Team	Side	PA / BF	Line	AVG / ERA	OPS
2025	AAA	Norfolk Tides	Bat	57	6 HR, 0 SB	0.367	1.211
2023	AAA	Sacramento River Cats	Bat	69	0 HR, 1 SB	0.164	0.501
2023	AAA	Syracuse Mets	Bat	37	1 HR, 0 SB	0.308	1.014
2023	AAA	nan	Bat	106	1 HR, 1 SB	0.210	0.671
2018	AAA	Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders	Bat	28	4 HR, 0 SB	0.179	0.786
2016	AAA	Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders	Bat	313	10 HR, 7 SB	0.282	0.807
2015	AAA	Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders	Bat	146	6 HR, 1 SB	0.295	0.849
2015	AA	Trenton Thunder	Bat	254	12 HR, 6 SB	0.262	0.795
2014	AA	Trenton Thunder	Bat	477	13 HR, 1 SB	0.270	0.744
2013	A+	Tampa Yankees	Bat	399	13 HR, 3 SB	0.254	0.733
2013	AA	Trenton Thunder	Bat	110	2 HR, 0 SB	0.250	0.744
2012	A+	Tampa Yankees	Bat	185	5 HR, 4 SB	0.279	0.766

Splits

Year	vs LHP	vs RHP	Home	Away
2026	0.382	0.342	0.424	0.308
2025	0.256	0.372	0.480	0.209
2024	0.318	0.312	0.279	0.347
2023	0.429	0.309	0.346	0.343
2022	0.255	0.305	0.266	0.315
2021	0.362	0.301	0.354	0.287
2020	0.282	0.272	0.316	0.215
2019	0.345	0.371	0.409	0.328

wOBA by split, from pitch level data, 2015 on. For pitchers the split is the batter side faced.

Postseason batting

Year	G	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2024	2	7	0	2	1	0	0	0	2	0.286	0.286	0.429	0.714
2021	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
2020	3	8	1	1	0	1	3	0	4	0.125	0.111	0.500	0.611
2019	9	31	2	4	0	1	3	4	16	0.129	0.250	0.226	0.476
2018	5	18	3	3	1	2	5	1	5	0.167	0.200	0.556	0.756
2017	13	53	5	11	2	3	8	1	19	0.208	0.218	0.415	0.633
Career	33	118	11	21	4	7	19	6	46	0.178	0.219	0.390	0.609