The Yankees after noticed considerable likely in outfielder Jake Sanford ahead of slicing the 2019 third-spherical decide on previous week for allegedly stealing from his minimal league teammates and scamming people today for income on-line.
The Yankees took Sanford in the 3rd spherical of the 2019 MLB Draft and the comparisons to Brett Gardner, a mainstay for 14 yrs in The Bronx, came effortlessly.
“If this one particular can do what Gardy did, then we have experienced a hell of a Draft on its individual,” Yankees director of scouting Damon Oppenheimer explained to MLB.com at the time. “He genuinely reminds us of [former Rockies All-Star] Brad Hawpe. He’s got large power it is easy, he drives the ball the other way. The mixture of the electrical power and the speed he has, staying a guy who is sort of young and just starting at this thing, it manufactured him real desirable to us.”
Not only did Sanford have a identical skillset to the speedy Gardner, but they were being also both of those coached by John Pawlowski in university. Gardner, who was also a 3rd-spherical decide of the Yankees (2005), played less than Pawlowski at Charleston, whilst Sanford’s time with him came at Western Kentucky.
Sanford, a Nova Scotia, Canada indigenous, was a wander-on to the baseball workforce at McCook Community College in Nebraska, where by he experienced two breakout seasons. That led to him transferring to Western Kentucky, exactly where he walked-on again.
“What a fantastic tale,” Pawlowski stated of Sanford in June 2019, for every MLB.com. “It cannot aid but jog my memory about when the Yankees chosen Gardner in 2005. He’s an athlete, he can operate balls down – and he’s just getting started off in baseball.
“The much more time and energy he places into it, he now has incredible energy and fantastic bat-to-ball capabilities, there’s incredible upside there. He’s obtained a bright potential ahead of him.”
In 2019 at Western Kentucky, he attained the very first triple crown in Meeting Usa history, hitting .402 with 22 property runs and 65 RBIs.
A resource advised The Post’s Dan Martin the 24-year-previous Sanford was introduced by the Yankees very last 7 days immediately after a team investigation identified Sanford experienced stolen from teammates, which includes tools that he would then consider to provide on the net. It was first reported by NJ Advance Media.
Sanford allegedly recognized dollars from potential buyers for the gear then unsuccessful to supply the products and solutions, the resource additional.
The outfielder break up last time between Lower-A Tampa and High-A Hudson Valley, and strike a mixed 16 homers and finished an OPS of .823.
Sanford signed with the Ottawa Titans in the Frontier League soon after staying slice by the Yankees. He deactivated his Twitter and Instagram accounts soon after the news of his launch.
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