Aníbal Alejandro Sánchez, Jr. [a-NEE-bal] (born February 27, 1984 in Maracay, Venezuela) is a Important League Baseball proper-handed beginning pitcher with the Florida Marlins. He is outlined as 6 ft tall and 180 pounds. On September 6, 2006, in just his 13th occupation Important League begin, Sánchez pitched a no-hitter in opposition to the Arizona Diamondbacks.Minimal leagues Anibal Sanchez profile and Statistics
Sánchez possesses a fastball clocked as substantial as the mid-90's, an over-typical curve, a superior changeup and a slider . He was signed by the Boston Red Sox as an global cost-free agent in 2001. Immediately after enjoying in the Venezuelan Summer time League for two seasons, Aníbal experienced an elbow damage that necessary surgical procedure to transfer his elbow ligament, creating him to skip the whole 2003 period.
In the subsequent 12 months, he returned to the mound, this time generating his debut on American soil with the small-season Single-A Lowell Spinners. In fifteen starts, Aníbal posted a 3–4 report with a one.77 ERA, and by the stop of the yr was broadly thought to be a single of Boston's top pitching prospective customers. After the 2004 season, Baseball America named Sánchez Boston's fifth-greatest prospect, behind shortstop Hanley Ramirez, outfielder Brandon Moss, and pitchers Jonathan Papelbon and Jon Lester.[one] By 2006, Ramirez, Papelbon, and Lester had all played in the majors Moss was chosen as the Portland Sea Dogs' most valuable player in 2006.[2]
2005 saw the youthful prospect beginning the year or so off in Wilmington, Boston's High-A ball affiliate. Immediately after posting a 6–1 file with a 2.40 ERA, getting a collection for the All-Star Futures Video game, and producing the Carolina League All-Star crew, he was promoted to the Double-A Portland Sea Canines. Aníbal obtained off to a very hot commence there, but tired toward the conclude of the period, producing some issue about his sturdiness. Even now, Sánchez put up a three.45 ERA more than eleven commences in his 1st year in Double-A at 21 several years outdated, he was however one of the youngest gamers in his league.
[edit]Becoming a member of the Florida Marlins
At the conclude of the period, Boston traded Sánchez along with Hanley Ramirez, Jesús Delgado, and Harvey García to the Florida Marlins, in the similar transaction that brought Josh Beckett, Guillermo Mota, and Mike Lowell to the Red Sox. In addition to Beckett and Lowell, the Marlins traded a number of of their other star gamers immediately after the 2005 time, like Carlos Delgado, Juan Pierre, Paul Lo Duca, and Luis Castillo, for mostly minimal-league prospects. Baseball The usa ranked Sánchez 3rd in the Marlins' technique (after Jeremy Hermida and Ramirez) and 40th over-all in the key leagues at the get started of the 2006 period
