Twins release former All-Star righty

The Twins released Aaron Sanchez, according to the right-hander’s MLB.com profile page. Sanchez has spent the entire season at Triple-A St. Paul after signing a minors deal during the offseason.

The results just haven’t been there for Sanchez, who has a 5.30 ERA over 73 innings and 18 games (16 of them starts) at the Triple-A level. 

While his 49.8% grounder rate is solid, Sanchez has only a 16.8% strikeout rate and a garish 15.6% walk rate, with almost many free passes (53) as strikeouts (57). 

Even after a part-time move to the bullpen, Sanchez has still allowed multiple runs in each of his last seven outings, translating to an 8.00 ERA over his last 27 frames of work.

An All-Star with the Blue Jays in 2016, Sanchez never again hit those heights due to a variety of injuries. Blister and fingernail problems hampered his next few seasons in Toronto, and a shoulder injury kept Sanchez out of action for the entirety of the 2020 campaign. 

Sanchez has pitched for five different teams since the start of the 2019 season, including an initial stint with the Twins, who first brought him into the organization on another minors deal in June 2022. Over 60 total innings with Washington and Minnesota in 2022, Sanchez had a 6.60 ERA.