Sanchez has been solid on defense this year, but the Giants are going to need a little more oomph out of his bat. His current .302 wOBA — using the original Tango formula and not the FanGraphs’ version — leaves much to be desired. In our graph I’ve also included the league average for wOBA. The league average 2B this year in the NL currently sits at a .328 wOBA. So, it’s hard to make the argument that, positionally, second basemen are worse than the league average hitter. Sanchez owns a career batting line of .268/.313/.319 as a Giant.


What makes this even worse is that Bork continues to bat him in the #2 hole, which means that instead of extra at-bats for Burrell and Ishikawa, wet get extra Franchez. Also nauseating, is that Kevin Frandsen put up better numbers in the more difficult league, and would have cost the Giants about 5.5 million less per year, maybe freeing up enough money to sign Carl Crawford. Sanchez has been very good on defense, but very pedestrian on offense. Chalk up another great signing for Sabean.
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