Longtime MLB right-hander Anibal Sanchez announced to social media on Tuesday that he is retiring from baseball after 16 career seasons. Now 39, Sanchez had gone unsigned to this point of the 2023 MLB campaign.
Anibal Sanchez, who threw a no-hitter as a rookie and pitched in the major leagues for 16 seasons, announced on Tuesday night that he was retiring from baseball.
Longtime big league starter Aníbal Sánchez took to Instagram on Tuesday evening to announce his retirement. The 39-year-old wraps up a career in which he appeared in parts of 16 big league campaigns.
St. Louis right-hander Jack Flaherty will make his latest comeback from shoulder soreness Monday when the Cardinals host the Washington Nationals.
Anibal Sanchez pitched seven innings of three-hit ball to secure his first victory in nearly two years as the Washington Nationals beat the visiting Oakland Athletics 5-1 on Wednesday night.
For the second time in as many nights, the San Diego Padres and visiting Washington Nationals will meet Friday night with a repeat pitching matchup from a game played less than a week ago in the nation's capital.
Sánchez had given up a 406-foot home run to Manny Machado on an 88-MPH sinker earlier that same inning.
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The San Diego Padres will return home after a disappointing 3-3 road split against two of the worst teams in the National League, only to get a rematch against the worst in the league: the Washington Nationals.
Winners of just two of their last 18 games, the Washington Nationals will turn to 38-year-old right-hander Anibal Sanchez to start Saturday night's game against the Arizona Diamondbacks in Phoenix.
Sánchez will return to a big league mound for the first time since 2020.
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Anibal Sanchez is ready to get back on a major league mound for the first time in nearly two years, and the Washington Nationals are more than happy to throw out the welcome mat.
The Nationals announced the transfer of starting pitcher Aníbal Sánchez from the 10-day to the 60-day injured list. The move clears a 40-man roster spot for utilityman Dee Strange-Gordon, who has been reinstated from the COVID-19 IL.
Sánchez returns to the nation’s capital, where he spent the 2019 and 2020 campaigns.
A veteran who made his MLB debut back in 2006, Sanchez had his best years from 2010 to 2014.
Despite the downtime and the poor season in 2020, Sánchez could garner interest around the league due to the nature of the starting pitching market.
How many of these 11 contracts ended with a useful pitcher still working for the signing team at the end of Year 5? Zero.
Aníbal Sánchez is no longer planning to pitch this season, which may signal the end of his playing career.
Sanchez, 37, didn’t sign over the winter and is coming off a rough 2020 showing. The veteran right-hander was tagged for a 6.62 ERA in 53 innings with the Nationals last summer.
Free agent right-hander Anibal Sanchez suffered a finger injury during his showcase Saturday. The 37-year old Sanchez cut his finger just 13 pitches into the showcase, Jon Heyman of MLB Network reports.
Pitchers Stephen Strasburg and Anibal Sanchez were the others in two separate incidents. Rizzo’s account of his incident illustrates the absurdity of umpires throwing out MLB players and staff from empty stands.
Perhaps one only needed to look at the umpiring crew for Game 1 of the NLCS on Friday night to know that Anibal Sanchez might have had a chance for a big game.
With thrilling NLDS wins by the Cardinals and Nationals, the 2019 NLCS is all set. Here's a look at some storylines to follow with the series opening on Friday.
The Washington Nationals will have a multitude of potential uniform combinations during Grapefruit League action, so the team will attempt to navigate any possible player confusion by relying upon a mannequin model in the clubhouse.
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