Acquired last year in the Sheffield trade, Humberto Sanchez spent all of last year on the shelf after TJ surgery and apparently bone spurs;
"It didn't hurt to throw, but my extension wasn't where it was supposed to be," explained Sanchez, who underwent more X-rays with famed doctor Dr. James Andrews to figure out the cause of the problem. "They showed that I had some bone spurs in my elbow that had calcified. It happens in maybe one out of 400 cases, but for some reason in mostly Hispanic guys, though they don't know why."
Knowing that it could cause future problems, Sanchez and his doctor decided to go back into surgery to clean out the spurs, setting his progress back another couple of weeks. "
Sanchez has nasty, or in this case dirty, stuff but his health has been checkered at best. Given his health history and his stuff I can't see him as anything but a reliever.
However the article does make you root for him a bit. He is a native to the Bronx and his mom is a huge Yankee fan. She actually hung up on him when he said he was traded to the Yankees thinking he was lying. The article is a good read and Sanchez comes off as a guy you can root for. Maybe we will see Sanchez one day taking over for Mariano the great. Would be kind of cool to have Sanchez one day closing out games for fellow New Yorker Delin Betances, wouldn't it?
