I Hereby Re-Name Gary Sanchez; Jesus.

You all remember when the Yankees had a highly touted catching prospect;  Jesus Montero.

Montero kept having trouble catching the ball.  For one thing, his head was too large for any conventional face mask, and one had to be forged in Indiana.  For another, it seemed his mitt was made of the same resistant steel as the mask.

His amazing hitting in the minor leagues did not translate to the major leagues.  He had power, but would tend to go 1-35, with his one hit being a solo dinger, and the remainder of his outs were rally-killing double plays and egregious strike outs.

He was, of course, traded to Seattle for  a pitcher who amounted to nothing, and the arguments still endure about which team did worse in the deal.

One day, whilst in his Seattle uniform, a fan verbally and visually assailed the ever expanding waistline of Jesus Montero by showing this:



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And sending a few to the bench.





This engaged the young man.  Who pretty much disappeared from the game.


So, until Gary Sanchez re-images himself, I am re-naming him : Jesus Sanchez.

In 2018, he is hitting like the original Yankee Jesus ( under .200 ); he cannot catch the ball;
he is too pudgy to run or hustle; he hits into rally-killing double plays, he strikes out endlessly, and he spends most of his time not playing.

Seriously, folks, he has been awful in 2018 and most players would not have survived this long with the big club.

So Gary is the new Jesus.

And we all know what happened to him.