{"id":149702,"date":"2025-07-03T19:57:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T19:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/149702\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T19:57:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T19:57:11","slug":"former-yankees-bust-linked-to-padres-in-recent-trade-prediction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/149702\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Yankees Bust Linked to Padres in Recent Trade Prediction"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Yankees Bust Linked to Padres in Recent Trade Prediction<\/a> originally appeared on Athlon Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Veteran MLB catcher Gary S\u00e1nchez could be returning to a familiar home ahead of the July 31 trade deadline.<\/p>\n

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No, New York Yankees fans don’t need to worry about seeing S\u00e1nchez in pinstripes again.\u00a0Instead,\u00a0MLB insider Ken Rosenthal predicted the San Diego Padres could reunite with the 32-year-old backstop, who spent time with the Padres two years ago.<\/p>\n

“No matter how much they talk about how Elias D\u00edaz and Mart\u00edn Maldonado excel on the defensive side, they would like to upgrade offensively,” Rosenthal wrote<\/a> of the Padres’ catching situation.<\/p>\n

Rosenthal said the Orioles “could make … S\u00e1nchez available” when their catchers get healthier. Baltimore recently placed three catchers on the injured list.<\/p>\n

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San Diego Padres catcher Gary S\u00e1nchez in 2023Orlando Ramirez-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

S\u00e1nchez impressed during his brief Padres stint, mashing 19 home runs with a .792 OPS over 260 plate appearances in 2023. He finished ninth on the club in bWAR (2.3) and parlayed that into a one-year, $7.5 million contract with the Milwaukee Brewers.<\/p>\n

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Baltimore subsequently signed S\u00e1nchez to a one-year, $8.5 million contract last December. He owns a .247 average, five homers, 24 RBIs, and a .763 OPS in 95 plate appearances.<\/p>\n

S\u00e1nchez does not have a no-trade clause in his contract.<\/p>\n

S\u00e1nchez is a lifetime .247 hitter with 189 home runs and a .772 OPS across 11 seasons. Although he’s hit .178 in the playoffs, S\u00e1nchez has also hit seven homers over 33 postseason games.<\/p>\n

Related: MLB Insider Makes Major Aroldis Chapman Prediction Before Trade Deadline<\/a><\/p>\n

Related: 3 MLB Landing Spots for SP Luis Severino Before Trade Deadline<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jul 3, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Yankees Bust Linked to Padres in Recent Trade Prediction originally appeared on Athlon Sports. Veteran MLB catcher…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2407],"tags":[143,5,4703,1127,4748,1525,4,62,43,137,18,4339,4338],"class_list":{"0":"post-149702","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego-padres","8":"tag-baltimore","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-elias-diaz","11":"tag-gary-sanchez","12":"tag-ken-rosenthal","13":"tag-martin-maldonado","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-new-york-yankees","16":"tag-padres","17":"tag-san-diego","18":"tag-san-diego-padres","19":"tag-sandiego","20":"tag-sandiegopadres"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114791071427277404","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}