TAMPA, Fla. - A mid-winter trip to the Dominican Republic has New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone fully convinced that his catcher's largely atrocious 2018 season will give way to a dramatically better one this year.
It's what he sees inside Gary Sanchez that has Boone believing.
"There's a real hunger to go out and show the world what a good player he is. That's what feels palpable to me about him right now and where he's at," Boone said Wednesday during his start-of-spring-training news conference.
"Not only physically - because he's in a really good place physically, and his body's in good shape, and all the testing that he's doing behind the scenes suggests that he's physically in a really good place - but I feel like mentally, he's ready to go out and in a lot of ways, take charge," Boone added.