{"id":432396,"date":"2023-03-31T16:42:34","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T20:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=432396"},"modified":"2023-03-31T15:04:20","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T19:04:20","slug":"gary-sanchez-joins-san-francisco-giants","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/gary-sanchez-joins-san-francisco-giants\/","title":{"rendered":"Gary Sanchez joins San Francisco Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Sanchez (30) was part of the Minnesota Twins last year and finished .205 with 16 home runs and 61 RBI in 128 matches. Gary played 3 roles for the Twins \u2013 first base, catcher, and designated hitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"ro\">The San Francisco Giants and Gary S\u00e1nchez are in agreement on a minor league contract, per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ken_Rosenthal?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Ken_Rosenthal<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jHnbXAHjIa\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/jHnbXAHjIa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLBONFOX\/status\/1641866647475724296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 31, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The player from the Dominican Republic had a fantastic start to his career in the NHL \u2013 he was voted in 2<sup>nd<\/sup> place in AL Rookie of the Year in 2016. He finished his rookie season .299 with 20 home runs in 53 matches.<\/p>\n<p>The next season Sanchez was even better, with 33 home runs, and even got MVP votes.<\/p>\n<p>However, things don\u2019t work out well for him in the last seasons as he can\u2019t keep above .200.<\/p>\n<p>Sanchez will now be able to play for the affiliate and leave if he is not endorsed to the 1<sup>st<\/sup> team by the beginning of May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Sanchez (30) was part of the Minnesota Twins last year and finished .205 with 16 home runs and 61 RBI in 128 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":432397,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17863,16903],"news_category":[16708],"gn_keywords":[18538,18537,12402],"acf":{"announce":"The former catcher of the Yankees got a minor-league deal with the Giants.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/432396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/432396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432396"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=432396"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=432396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}