{"id":718521,"date":"2026-06-06T03:45:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T03:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/718521\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T03:45:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T03:45:13","slug":"yankees-to-select-ali-sanchez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/718521\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees To Select Ali S\u00e1nchez"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Yankees will select catcher\u00a0Ali S\u00e1nchez<\/a> onto the MLB roster, reports Chris Kirschner of The Athletic<\/a>. New York hasn\u2019t confirmed that move but announced tonight that backup catcher\u00a0J.C. Escarra<\/a> was optioned to Triple-A Scranton Wilkes-Barre. New York has had room on the 40-man roster since early-season DFAs of Cade Winquest<\/a> and\u00a0Randal Grichuk<\/a>, so no other move is necessary.<\/p>\n

S\u00e1nchez will take over as the backup catcher behind\u00a0Austin Wells<\/a>, giving them a right-handed bat in the process. The Yankees have used a left-handed hitting duo of Wells and Escarra all season. Neither player has done anything offensively, with the latter hitting .177 without a home run in 22 games. Wells has a putrid .166\/.278\/.255 line across 169 plate appearances. He only has five hits in 50 at-bats against lefty pitching.<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old S\u00e1nchez, who signed an offseason minor league deal, isn\u2019t going to provide much of an offensive boost. He\u2019s a .183 hitter in 50 career big league contests. This year\u2019s .227\/.327\/.375 line over 40 Triple-A contests is below average and has come with reverse platoon splits. The Yankees figure to look for a clearer upgrade behind the dish before the trade deadline. They\u2019ll hope S\u00e1nchez can provide a small spark, or at least better balance, in the interim.<\/p>\n

S\u00e1nchez has a solid defensive reputation. He showed a plus arm in ranking among the top 20 catchers in average pop time last year in very brief stints with the Red Sox and Blue Jays. S\u00e1nchez has thrown out nearly a quarter of attempted base stealers at the MLB level and is 12-43 (28%) with Scranton this season. Statcast also graded him favorably for his blocking ability during his most extended MLB action, a 31-game stint with the Marlins two seasons ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Yankees will select catcher\u00a0Ali S\u00e1nchez onto the MLB roster, reports Chris Kirschner of The Athletic. New York…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":718522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[15819,5,1121],"class_list":["post-718521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-ali-sanchez","tag-baseball","tag-j-c-escarra"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116701110226885794","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718521","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=718521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/718522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}