Aníbal Sánchez felt good early in Spring Training, and the 38-year-old, 15-year veteran said he chalked it up to a year spent away from the game in 2021, after helping Washington win the World Series in 2019 and pitching for the club in 2020’s 60-game COVID season.
“I think everything is fresh, you know, the arm, if you remove a year,” Sánchez said when he spoke to reporters after his initial outing of the spring, “and especially because I wasn’t off because of an injury.”
“I was off because I decided to stay off,” he explained.