After 1,000 minor league games, Adrián Sanchez is the franchise's second-longest tenured player behind Ryan Zimmerman. He values his role as a relied-upon depth option. Yet his hope is often met by reality staring right back.
Adrián Sanchez has been with the Nationals since signing out of Venezuela in 2007, the franchise’s second-longest tenured player behind first baseman Ryan Zimmerman. By Jesse Dougherty Jesse Dougherty Reporter covering the Washington Nationals. Email Bio Follow April 15 at 1:43 PM Adrián Sanchez knew the number wasn’t right, not quite big enough, so he took out his iPhone and began scrolling through websites that keep track of his quiet baseball history.
Sanchez, 28, has played in just 62 major league games across two seasons. The utility infielder was up earlier this year before heading back into the system, his life a series of back and forths, of odd-hour plane rides, of phone calls commanding him to immediately pack. He’s played 156 games in Syracuse, N.Y., 256 in Harrisburg, Pa., 269 in Woodbridge, Va., 156 in Hagerstown, Md., and so on.
Brown is now the Atlanta Braves’ director of scouting. Rizzo is Washington’s general manager. Whenever they see each other, if their nonstop schedules intersect, they laugh about that 2007 trip to a small Venezuelan stadium at the edge of unending countryside. And not just because of how long it look, how tired they were, or how much scouting they packed into a few days, but because of the two players they discovered once there.
A system isn’t just filled with blue-chip prospects. Sanchez was the kind of low-cost, high-upside, versatile player who was needed and may make it once he developed and aged. Their agreement that January day, sealed with a round of handshakes, was only the start of a bigger commitment.
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