The Yankees took Sanford in the third round of the 2019 MLB Draft and the comparisons to Brett Gardner, a mainstay for 14 years in The Bronx, came easily.
“If this one can do what Gardy did, then we’ve had a hell of a Draft on its own,” Yankees director of scouting Damon. “He really reminds us of [former Rockies All-Star] Brad Hawpe. He’s got huge power; it’s easy, he drives the ball the other way. The combination of the power and the speed he has, being a guy who is kind of young and just starting at this thing, it made him real attractive to us.
Sanford, a Nova Scotia, Canada native, was a walk-on to the baseball team at McCook Community College in Nebraska, where he had two breakout seasons. That led to him transferring to“What a great story,” Pawlowski said of Sanford in June 2019, per MLB.com. “It can’t help but jog my memory about when the Yankees selected Gardner in 2005. He’s an athlete, he can run balls down – and he’s just getting started in baseball.
In 2019 at Western Kentucky, he earned the first triple crown in Conference USA history, hitting .402 with 22 home runs and 65 RBIs.
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