Pablo Sandoval hasn’t been in MLB since 2021, however that didn’t cease his long-standing points with weight from changing into a subject on the Mets broadcast.
Mets nice Keith Hernandez and play-by-play man Gary Cohen started speaking about Sandoval after a trivia query about San Francisco’s World Sequence MVPs within the 2010s.
“He at all times had the load points,” Hernandez mentioned of Sandoval on the SNY broadcast of Sunday’s Mets-Giants recreation at Citi Subject. “He simply fell off a cliff, however he had some large years for the Giants. Didn’t he go to the Crimson Sox? Simply type of bombed on the market. He got here again [to the Giants] and didn’t do the push-ups from the dinner desk.”
Sandoval, nicknamed Kung Fu Panda, was World Sequence MVP with the Giants in 2012 after hitting .500 with three homers and 4 RBIs in a dominant sweep of the Tigers.
The Venezuelan loved the most effective years of his profession in his first stint with the Giants, from 2008-14.
Sandoval was an All-Star in 2011 and ’12, and he received three World Sequence titles in San Francisco (2010, ’12, ’14).
Weight was a difficulty for Sandoval all through his profession, however it turned a significant storyline when he signed a five-year, $95 million contract with the Crimson Sox forward of the 2015 season and confirmed up for spring coaching obese.
Sandoval went on to play three lackluster seasons in Boston earlier than returning to the Giants from 2018-20 and shutting out his profession with the Braves in 2021.
Moments after Hernandez made his feedback within the high of the third inning, Giants DH Rafael Devers crushed a three-run homer, and San Francisco went on to rout the Mets, 12-4.
