New York Yankees catcher Gary Sanchez has come to the plate to bat 998 times over the past three regular seasons, with 875 of them counting as official at-bats, and he managed to reach via a base hit 175 times. Math tells us that is a lowly .200 batting average, right on the button, and by the way, that is worse than the career batting average for 1970s utility infielder Mario Mendoza, still an unfortunate lightning rod for derision with his "Mendoza Line." He hit .215. Perhaps we call .200 the "Sanchez Line."
Sanchez has hit better than that in one of the past three seasons, and he is a problem in fantasy baseball because we have a good idea at this point that he is not going to help a team - his Yankees or yours - in batting average. In fact, he does his best to destroy it. Oh, Sanchez possesses enticing power, enough to hit 62 home runs in that three-year span, and no catcher boasts more. Is it all worth it?