{"id":39225,"date":"2022-06-06T18:33:57","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T18:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/gary-sanchez-backs-miguel-andujar-after-trade-request-from-yankees\/"},"modified":"2022-06-06T18:33:57","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T18:33:57","slug":"gary-sanchez-backs-miguel-andujar-after-trade-request-from-yankees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/gary-sanchez-backs-miguel-andujar-after-trade-request-from-yankees\/","title":{"rendered":"Gary Sanchez backs Miguel Andujar after trade request from Yankees"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Miguel Andujar and his latest trade request have the support of at least one former teammate who recently got shipped out of The Bronx himself.<\/p>\n<p>Twins catcher Gary Sanchez, the former Yankee who will face his old team beginning Tuesday in Minnesota, went to bat for Andujar after the left fielder asked to be dealt following his Friday night demotion to Triple-A.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy opinion, it&#8217;s time for them or any other team to give him an opportunity,\u201d Sanchez told reporters through an interpreter, for the Star Tribune.  &#8220;He deserves to play in the big leagues.  He&#8217;s done a good job, offensively, but also defensively.  He&#8217;s come a long way defensively, and he&#8217;s shown that he&#8217;s capable of staying in the big leagues.  Maybe he deserves an opportunity on another team. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>After Andujar provided a solid stretch of play as an injury replacement over the last two weeks, he was optioned back to Triple-A Scranton \/ Wilkes-Barre as the Yankees lineup got back to full strength.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption>Miguel Andujar (left) and Gary Sanchez celebrate during a Yankees spring training game in 2019<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm\/?e=NYPH3805475924\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Andujar has been asking to be traded since the end of last year, without a regular spot on the Yankees&#8217; roster, but reiterated that request after Friday night&#8217;s game upon getting the news of his latest demotion.<\/p>\n<p>Sanchez, who was close with Andujar during their time together in the Yankees organization, understood that line of thinking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I was in his shoes, I&#8217;d probably be thinking about the same thing, asking for a trade, for a different scenario,\u201d Sanchez said.  \u201cBecause it&#8217;s really difficult when you&#8217;re ready, and when you have shown that you&#8217;re ready at this level, to be sent down to Triple-A and play Triple-A when you deserve to be in the big leagues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026 But at the same time, none of us makes those decisions.  We are just here to do our job.  Front offices decide that.  But I support him and hopefully everything works out. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>In 12 games with the Yankees this season, Andujar was batting .268 with a .596 OPS while showing defensive strides in left field.  Still, he has been unable to produce consistently after being the runner-up for AL Rookie of the Year in 2018. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/gary_sanchez.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Gary Sanchez playing for the Twins on May 18, 2022\" class=\"wp-image-22549141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/gary_sanchez.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/gary_sanchez.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1152 1152w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/gary_sanchez.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=768 768w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/gary_sanchez.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=384 384w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/gary_sanchez.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><figcaption>Gary Sanchez playing for the Twins on May 18, 2022<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Andujar underwent shoulder surgery the next season &#8211; and was supplanted at third base by Gio Urshela, who was dealt to the Twins with Sanchez this spring &#8211; and has mostly shuttled between the Yankees and Triple-A since then.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miguel Andujar and his latest trade request have the support of at least one former teammate who recently got shipped out of The Bronx himself. Twins catcher Gary Sanchez, the former Yankee who will face his old team beginning Tuesday in Minnesota, went to bat for Andujar after the left fielder asked to be dealt &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/gary-sanchez-backs-miguel-andujar-after-trade-request-from-yankees\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gary Sanchez backs Miguel Andujar after trade request from Yankees<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[11],"tags":[388,18066,17245,614,295],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/andujar.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1024","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39225"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}