{"id":593427,"date":"2016-12-16T08:59:44","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T13:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/?p=593427"},"modified":"2016-12-16T08:59:44","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T13:59:44","slug":"gary-sanchezs-insane-month-of-august-is-among-the-best-this-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/gary-sanchezs-insane-month-of-august-is-among-the-best-this-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"Gary Sanchez\u2019s Insane Month of August Is Among the Best This Decade\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
Making a good first impression is something many people aim for in various areas of life. MLB rookies will now have to chase\u00a0the ultimate first impression made by New York Yankees catcher, Gary Sanchez<\/a><\/strong>, this past summer.<\/p>\n Yankees fans knew Sanchez was expected to be the future for this franchise behind the plate, but had to do quite a bit of waiting before it actually happened. Sanchez accumulated two plate appearances in 2015, followed by\u00a0another four in May of this past season\u00a0before getting any kind of consistent opportunity.<\/p>\n But then, it happened \u2013 general manager Brian Cashman executed New York\u2019s first sell-off at the non-waiver trade deadline this century, which paved the way for Sanchez to finally get everyday at-bats at the big league level.<\/p>\n Did he take advantage of it? I’d say so.<\/p>\n He immediately endeared himself to Yankee fans eagerly awaiting his arrival, rewarding their patience by providing a historic month of offense\u00a0\u2013 especially considering he entered it with just six big-league plate appearances to his name.<\/p>\n Upon getting recalled by the Yankees on August 3, Sanchez just went on an absolute tear, and it doesn\u2019t matter which way you slice it, because it\u2019s all impressive.<\/p>\n In 95 August at-bats, the rookie backstop hit a ridiculous .389\/.458\/.832 with those 11 homers, 9 doubles, 21 RBI and 20 runs scored. That produced an equally insane wRC+ of 240, which, as Dave Cameron of FanGraphs noted the other day<\/a>, was the best overall month by any hitter (with >100 plate appearances) in 2016.<\/p>\n With FanGraphs unveiling a new splits leaderboard<\/a>, I was curious as to how good this month was compared to some other top performances from recent memory.<\/p>\n As it turns out, Sanchez\u2019s historic August was one of the 10 best monthly performances by a hitter since 2010:<\/p>\nA Month for the Ages<\/h2>\n