"I feel good," Sanchez said through an interpreter. "The mentality that I have right now is to work as if I'm not the regular catcher. That's the way that I like to work, but I feel good."
There is no challenge for Sanchez as the starting catcher, with his 20 homers in 53 games having anointed him as such even before the Yankees traded Brian McCann to the Astros in November. But Sanchez has not forgotten the sting of losing his roster spot to Austin Romine one spring ago.
Widely viewed as the frontrunner to grab that job, Sanchez produced just two hits in 22 at-bats (.