 Welcome to Intentional Walk. I'm Jack Curry. Gary Sanchez was the most scrutinized Yankee in 2018 and it was deserved. He hit 186. He led the major leagues and pass balls in the early days of spring training. He's been one of the most analyzed Yankees again and once again it's deserved because he's so valuable to what the Yankees are trying to accomplish. I had a conversation with Aaron Boone even before we got down to spring training and he talked about the visit that he made to the Dominican Republic to talk to Sanchez and get a vibe and a feel for how Sanchez was feeling and Boone told me that he was impressed with where Sanchez was mentally and that his mental state is so important to what he's trying to accomplish. I go back to conversations I've had with Derek Jeter where he has talked about how talent will get you to the major leagues but then you need to be mentally strong. So when I hear Aaron Boone saying that and other members of the Yankee organization talking about how they see renewed confidence and renewed desire from Gary Sanchez I think that's vital for what he's trying to do this season. I asked Sanchez yesterday a couple years ago you had 33 homers you knocked in 90 runs. Can you repeat that? Can you duplicate that in 2019? And he wouldn't go down that statistical road but he said listen I need to improve on both sides of the ball and I think that was a great answer because he's right. He is such a prolific hitter if he can bring the defensive side up close to where the Yankees feel it needs to be. It's so important to what they're trying to accomplish and by the way it was farcical to think that the Yankees would try and trade Gary Sanchez. He has 71 home runs in his first 266 major league games. Do you know who that matches him with? Joe DiMaggio. That was the same number DiMaggio had at that point in his career. I said I'm going to end every intentional walk with a song so we're going to stick with the theme for Gary Sanchez and for the second straight day we're going Bob Marley. It's get up, stand up. We'll see you soon.