Shortly after the club signed Aaron Sanchez to a minor league deal in mid-March, Davey Martinez, the Washington Nationals’ fifth-year manager, talked about what the team was getting in the 29-year-old, seven-year veteran.
“Here’s a guy that’s had some injuries, but he has some unbelievable upside, and we wanted to take a chance, bring him in and see what he can do,” Martinez explained.
Sanchez had surgery to repair a torn capsule in his right shoulder, which kept him from pitching in the majors in 2020’s 60-game COVID campaign, and the right-handed starter had a biceps issue which limited him to nine games (seven starts) and 35 1⁄3 IP for the San Francisco Giants in ‘21, but the Nats felt with his experience, and at a relatively young age, the pitcher was worth the gamble.