Outfielder Jesús Sánchez cleared waivers after being designated for assignment by the Diamondbacks and was assigned outright to Triple-A Reno, per the team’s transaction log at MLB.com. He’ll have the right to become a free agent, which he’ll surely take.
Sánchez’s time with the Snakes was brief. Arizona claimed him off waivers on Sept. 14 after the Blue Jays had designated him for assignment, absorbing the remaining $500K on his contract in hopes that he could provide some needed help against right-handed pitching in the season’s final two weeks. It didn’t really pan out. Sánchez appeared in six games and went 2-for-15 with a pair of singles, a walk and five strikeouts in 16 official plate appearances.
That quiet finish in Arizona brought Sánchez’s season-end batting line to .254/.311/.401. It’s respectable production, right in line with the league average, but given Sánchez’s longstanding platoon issues and the glaring manner in which the 28-year-old (29 next week) declined on the defensive side of the game, that wasn’t enough for either the Jays or D-backs to carry him on the 40-man roster into 2027 and give him a raise on this year’s $6.8MM salary in what would have been his final year of arbitration eligibility.
Sánchez had previously graded as an above-average defender in the outfield corners, but metrics like Defensive Runs Saved (-10) and Statcast’s Outs Above Average (-8) indicate that his glovework fell off a cliff this year. Those numbers would obviously be ugly over the course of a full season, but Sánchez logged only 559 innings on the grass this year. If he’d logged a full season of innings at the pace he was on, he’d have graded out as one of the least-effective defensive players in recent memory. His average sprint speed declined for a third straight season, checking into just the 24th percentile of big league position players, per Statcast. His arm strength still grades well above average, but his accuracy has declined.
Sánchez entered 2025 as a career .253/.324/.450 hitter against right-handed pitching. He more or less matched that output (.267/.325/.430), but his already feeble production against southpaws dried up even further. Granted, Sánchez only received 35 plate appearances against lefties in 2026 — about 11.1% of his plate appearances. Still, a .152/.200/.182 output is egregious enough that even in a limited sample, it weighed down his production considerably.
Once he elects free agency — a formality at this point — Sánchez will head to the open market and look to latch on with a club seeking some help in the outfield corners and/or against right-handed pitching. He’ll have to settle for a one-year contract with a low base salary and probably some incentives — if there’s a big league deal to be found at all. Platoon corner bats aren’t typically compensated all that well in free agency unless they’re elite on the strong side of their platoon and/or plus defenders.
Even in his absolute best seasons (2023-24), Sánchez batted .268/.337/.465 against righties — about 18% better than average, by measure of wRC+. He posted 3 DRS and 2 OAA, combined, in that pair of seasons — useful production, but not the type for which a team will break the bank. He’ll enter free agency coming off a decidedly weaker offensive performance and with pronounced defensive questions, both of which will adversely impact his earning power.
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