Jump to content
Jays Centre
  • Create Account

GDT(4/4): Tampa Bay Rays @ Your Toronto Blue Jays - Archer vs. Sanchez - 7:07 PM ET


Recommended Posts

  • Replies 1.1k
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

Top Posters In This Topic

Posted

 

Sanchez’s youth, however, has seldom been talked about, perhaps because it’s not the average American upbringing. When his mother, Lynn Gesky, was pregnant with Aaron, she decided to pack up and leave his father, Frank Sanchez, taking her first son, Andrew, with her. They moved in with her family and shortly thereafter she met a building inspector and former baseball player named Mike Shipley.

Shipley, a tall, left-handed pitcher, played a couple of seasons at Barstow Community College before moving to the University of Tulsa for his junior season, finishing fifth in the NCAA in strikeouts. The California Angels drafted him in the 10th round of the 1976 draft and let him go back to Tulsa for his senior year, where a rotator cuff injury ended his baseball career.

With six-month-old Sanchez’s biological father out of the picture, Shipley took over, providing bottle feedings and diaper changes. Sanchez would sometimes see his father on weekends, but he can’t remember anything about their relationship. What he does remember is being in Grade 5 and finding out there would be no more weekends away from his mom’s place because his father had died. Sanchez says he doesn’t know how Frank died—he’s never asked and never will. He just knows he made a decision when he was young to carry on the Sanchez name, primarily for his grandparents’ sake.

Posted
Does Sanchez even have a third pitch?

 

The slider that's a "work in progress" that he was supposed to be working on in ST.

Community Moderator
Posted
ITT: People don't know what a stepfather is? *sighs*

 

props to his mom for going to the farm team to get him a better coach. lol

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
The Jays Centre Caretaker Fund
The Jays Centre Caretaker Fund

You all care about this site. The next step is caring for it. We’re asking you to caretake this site so it can remain the premier Blue Jays community on the internet.

×
×
  • Create New...