{"id":362095,"date":"2025-12-22T17:15:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T17:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/362095\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T17:15:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T17:15:11","slug":"yankees-add-ali-sanchez-zack-short-on-minor-league-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/362095\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees Add Ali Sanchez, Zack Short On Minor League Deals"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Yankees have agreed to minor league contracts with catcher Ali S\u00e1nchez<\/a> and infielder Zack Short<\/a>, per the team\u2019s transaction log at MLB.com<\/a>. Both former big leaguers will presumably be in major league camp next spring.<\/p>\n

Sanchez is a right-handed-hitting catcher with experience in parts of four major league seasons. He\u2019ll turn 29 in a month. He split the 2025 campaign between the Mets, Blue Jays and Red Sox organizations, logging some major league time with the latter two. Sanchez has only 133 big league plate appearances under his belt and is a .183\/.220\/.233 in that time. He\u2019s a solid defender who has played in parts of five Triple-A seasons, including a 2025 campaign in which he slashed .274\/.336\/.411 (102 wRC+) in 57 games between the top affiliates for the Mets and Jays.<\/p>\n

Short, 30, is another glove-first player who\u2019s seen limited action in the majors. The former 17th-round pick has suited up for the Astros, Tigers, Mets, Red Sox and Braves in the majors, hitting a combined .172\/.271\/.296 with 15 home runs and 10 steals in 594 turns at the plate. He strikes out too often but also draws plenty of walks.<\/p>\n

Short, fittingly, has spent the bulk of his time in the majors playing shortstop, but he\u2019s also spent significant time at third base and second base (in addition to one-off cameos in center field and right field). He\u2019s drawn better marks for his defense at second base than the other spots but still gives the Yankees some versatility to stash in Triple-A, where he\u2019s a .216\/.353\/.380 hitter in parts of six seasons.<\/p>\n

New York currently has Austin Wells<\/a> and J.C. Escarra<\/a> ticketed for big league catching work. Sanchez will provide some depth beyond that duo. Short is behind each of Anthony Volpe<\/a>, Jazz Chisholm Jr.<\/a>, Ryan McMahon<\/a>, Oswaldo Cabrera<\/a> and Amed Rosario<\/a> on the infield depth chart. Out-of-options infielders Jorbit Vivas<\/a> and Braden Shewmake<\/a> are both on the 40-man roster as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Yankees have agreed to minor league contracts with catcher Ali S\u00e1nchez and infielder Zack Short, per the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[33133,49,48,462,82,14258],"class_list":{"0":"post-362095","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ali-sanchez","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-zack-short"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}