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Yankees catching prospect Gary Sanchez has been named the Player of the Week in the Arizona Fall League.
In the press release announcing the award, the AFL listed Sanchez’s stats through two weeks, but those numbers don’t include Monday’s game when he homered yet again. Through eight games in Arizona, Sanchez has five home runs, 15 RBI and a .457 average. Last year, Greg Bird was named the Arizona Fall League MVP with six home runs and 21 RBI through 26 games.
Here’s the press release announcing Sanchez’s Player of the Week honors.
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The 22-year-old Sanchez hit .421 with two home runs and 16 total bases and led the league with nine RBI last week.
Through the Fall League’s first two weeks of play, the native of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic led the AFL in homers (4), hits (14), RBI (14) and total bases (28) and ranked fifth in batting (.467).
The 6-3, 230-pound catcher, who made his major-league debut as a Yankee on October 3 vs. Baltimore, split his 2015 season between Double-A Trenton (.262, 12 homers, 36 RBI in 58 games) and Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (.295, 6 homers, 26 RBI in 35 games).
In his six-year professional career, he owns a .274 batting average with 89 homers and 378 RBI in 565 games.
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