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<\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\nSanchez attended Heights High School in Houston. In his senior year he batted a .529. He went on to redshirt at the University of New Orleans. Sanchez spent one year there before going to Galveston Junior College playing two seasons with the Whitecaps. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sanchez\u2019s next stop was Kingsville to come play for the Javelinas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cTo me, it means everything. Playing for this organization has taught me a lot about brotherhood. Ever since I joined with TAMUK, I was introduced to the pack baseball mentality, being part of this team and the culture that we have built. This is something I have never been a part of,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sanchez was recognized for his outstanding 2024 season during The South Texas Winter Baseball Banquet. And so far, this year he\u2019s first on the team in OPS (.907), Doubles (12), RBIs (23) and Bases by Balls (24). He also sits second on the team in Hits (41) and Batting Average (.333).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cVinny (Vincent) has been a good hitter for us in the middle of our lineup now for two years and understands our system. He\u2019s been a guy we can count on to be a presence in the lineup every day. He\u2019s got the ability to hit with runners in scoring position,\u201d Head Coach Jason Gonzales said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With being in his fifth year of his collegiate career and one of the lone returners on the offensive side for the Javelinas, Sanchez took on the responsibility of becoming a leader for the team. Stepping up as the leader wasn\u2019t unfimiliar territory for Sanchez as he had been Captain for his high school team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBeing one of the leaders for this team has been a cool experience,\u201d Sanchez said. \u201cI know what it feels like to go to a new school and have no one welcome you. I wanted to make sure that nobody on this team felt that way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI felt like it was my job to keep the new guys in line and show them the way we do things around here. I wanted the new guys to come to me with questions about our system since I was here last year and knew what this program should look like. As a leader I wanted to make sure this team had a special bond.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n With Sanchez nearing the end of his collegiate career he has aspirations of sticking around the game. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhat I really want to do and have been applying for is getting a job with an MLB team in the office. I want to work behind the scenes with the team and use what I\u2019ve learned my whole life, which is this sport baseball,\u201d Sanchez said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chasing runs, finding brotherhood Someone once said, \u201cFind a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.\u201d For… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":11462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[141],"ppma_author":[288],"class_list":["post-11460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":"Photo by Matthew Roberts - Vincent Sanchez tossing the ball in between innings.","source_text":"","source_url":""},"authors":[{"term_id":288,"user_id":132,"is_guest":0,"slug":"mark-paz","display_name":"Mark Paz","avatar_url":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/wp-content\/litespeed\/avatar\/f8c5d411667d054487c111ee694f0255.jpg?ver=1776213899","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11472,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11460\/revisions\/11472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11460"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=11460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_9624-1-1024x1004.jpg\")
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