In a season where he found himself the subject of conversation among Yankees fans for all the wrong reasons, Gary Sánchez will likely enter the 2020 season doing something he has not done since he first came up in 2016: fight for his job.
When asked on the end-of-season conference call with reporters about the starting catcher job on Wednesday, Brian Cashman refused to commit outwardly to either Sánchez or Kyle Higashioka — who began the season as the team’s backup — as the starter. “Could very well be a change, could very well be a competition,” he said, also adding that “the way Gary Sánchez’s season transpired and then the way it ended with Higashioka actually starting in the postseason as many games as he did” makes it “one of the discussion points we’re going to have to focus on.