ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Aren’t we missing the point? By a mile?
Does it really matter whether Gary Sanchez joins a club that counts Joe Charboneau, Bob Hamelin and Angel Berroa among its members?
To ponder whether the Yankees’ catching wunderkind deserves the 2016 American League Rookie of the Year prompts a call from “Back to the Future” mad scientist Dr. Brown, who declared, “Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.”
Sanchez went deep twice more Wednesday night at Tropicana Field, becoming the fastest player in major league history to reach first 18 and then 19 home runs and powering the Yankees (79-72) to an 11-5 victory over the Rays, drawing them 2 ½ games behind the Orioles (82-70) in the American League wild-card race.