Paul Hembekides

A year from now, we could look at this differently.

Baseball is funny like that.

Yeah, and I'll say I think in my spring training looks, and I only had a couple, but in my spring training looks, I felt as if he moved way better than what I had heard and what had kind of been reported to me.

He was playing some shortstop in backfield games and that sort of thing.

I don't think he's not.

I think the way he was billed is it was kind of like it was going to be this big-bodied power hitter that had no lateral movement.

I thought he was actually a little twitchier than what I had expected.

I thought the swing was good.

It was an aggressive assignment, kind of jumping the Florida Complex League, and I think people need to keep that in mind of, you know...

how much of a jump up that is, a step up that is from being an amateur player in January, signing your contract, going out to the Dominican Summer League, having success there, and then, you know, jumping to a level where you're facing a lot of college players,

Now, they may not be the big name college guys that go in the first or second round, but you're still seeing some college pitchers who have pitched those big moments in the SEC and all those sort of things.

I think that's a really tough landing spot for a guy like Sanchez.

But the power is there.

I think the bat to ball ability is there.

My biggest concern probably falls more on

The approach side, he's been a little bit aggressive on pitches outside of the zone.

Hasn't been as aggressive as you'd like to see on pitches inside the zone.

That's gotten a little bit better.

Really, the pivot point for me was May 15th.

He's hit 348, 408, 580 over those 17 games.