Yogi Berra and Bill Dickey reside in the Hall of Fame. Thurman Munson and Elston Howard collected MVP awards. Jorge Posada earned five All-Star Game invitations.
Gary Sanchez has never played more than 122 games in a season. Yet he has traveled — twice — where so many legendary Yankees catchers have never been.
For the second time in his three full seasons, Sanchez set the franchise’s single-season record for home runs by a catcher, slugging two more round-trippers in Tuesday’s 10-1 win over the Rangers to increase his record-breaking total to 34 in just 99 games this season.