AN AWESOME PIECE OF SANCHEZ HISTORY. 19 HR’S AND COUNTING. SICK BP JERSEY THAT SAW MANY HR’S THIS YEAR. Literally no one has reached 19 homers faster. Hitting 19 homers in a season is an admirable achievement for any Major Leaguer. Sanchez checked that box on Wednesday… In his 43rd game of the season, and just the 45th of his big league career. If that sounds like an incredible pace, well, it is: Those 19 dingers are the most ever hit by a player in his first 45 games. 7,727 feet of homers. Yes, you read that correctly: Sanchez’s homers have traveled nearly a mile and a half. To put that into perspective, you could stack six Empire State Buildings one on top of the other… And still have a couple football fields left over. He’s hitting dingers at a positively Bondsian rate. Sanchez has hit his 19 homers over 166 at-bats. According to our highly advanced calculations, that comes out to a home run every 8.7 ABs or so. For comparison, Milwaukee’s. Currently leads the Majors in that category… To find a rate more preposterous than Sanchez’s, you have to go all the way back to 2004, when some guy named Barry Bonds was around. Gary Sanchez HR per at-bat rate in 2016: 1 every 8.7 AB. Babe Ruth HR per at-bat rate in 1927: 1 every 9.0 AB. He’s already arguably the best rookie in baseball. You’d think it would be hard for someone who’s only played a little more than a quarter of a season to enter himself into the AL Rookie of the Year race. Clearly, though, you haven’t been paying attention to the above dingers: Sanchez is already in a tie for fifth on the rookie home run board leader and he still has 11 games to catch. S league-leading 27 fingers. He’s in rarefied offensive air among catchers… Generally speaking, catchers are better known for their glove than their bat. That’s what made guys like Mike Piazza so remarkable. Sanchez’s 19 homers aren’t just good, they’re historically good — he’s already tied Randy Hundley for 10th on the all-time list among rookie catchers. Have we mentioned he’s only played 43 games this season? He leads the league in home runs nearly hit while being intentionally walked. This is not an exaggeration. He’s on pace for a truly staggering number of dingers. We should preface this by saying that this is all rampant speculation, however: Over a full season, Sanchez is on pace for 71 homers. At that rate, he would break Barry Bonds’ career home run record at some point during his eleventh season. WATCH: Nobody in MLB history has hit 19 home runs quicker than Gary Sanchez. Sanchez breaks Wally Berger’s record of 17 home runs in his first 45 career games. Sánchez with the New York Yankees in 2016. New York Yankees No. Born: December 2, 1992. October 3, 2015, for the New York Yankees. (through September 18, 2016). Career highlights and awards. AL Rookie of the Month. AL Player of the Month. Gary Sánchez (born December 2, 1992) is a Dominican professional baseball. For the New York Yankees. Of Major League Baseball. He made his MLB debut with the Yankees in 2015. The item “Gary Sanchez Used BP Jersey 2016 All-Star Futures Game -ROY Yankee-History-1/1″ is in sale since Wednesday, September 21, 2016. This item is in the category “Sports Mem, Cards & Fan Shop\Game Used Memorabilia\Baseball-MLB\Jerseys”. The seller is “sportsphilanthropist” and is located in Warren, New Jersey. This item can be shipped to United States.