The Ducks keep filling up their 25th Anniversary team and have added two more members this past week.
Former catcher Hector Sanchez has been chosen as the 21st member of the franchise’s 25th Anniversary Team.
Sanchez was with the Ducks for some of three different seasons in 2019, 2021, and again in 2023. While with the Flock he batted .260 with 27 home runs, 130 RBIs, 90 runs, 167 hits, 34 doubles, one triple, 52 walks, a .315 on-base percentage and a .757 OPS.
Sanchez wasn't just a regular season standout as he was a part of 16 playoffs games and had 14 hits, five RBIs, four runs, and six walks. He was an important piece if the 2019 Atlantic League championship and the 2021 North Division champs. He was named an Atlantic League Post-Season All-Star in 2021 as well.
He was highly regarded for his defense behind the plate and his numbers there show that. He committed just seven errors in 135 games at catcher, and he was selected to the Red, White and Blue All-Defensive Team in 2021.
He will be joined on the Anniversary team by pitcher Mike Loree.
Loree was with the Ducks in 2011 and 2012. He finished his Ducks career with a 19-12 record with a 3.33 ERA, one complete game and 220 strikeouts in 227 innings.
When you say the name Mike Loree to Ducks fans, they remember him for what the best season, possibly ever, by a player in franchise history. In 2011 he won the pitching Triple Crown with the Atlantic League. He led the league in wins with 14, ERA with a tiny 1.98 and strikeouts with 131. That season he also had one of the best single game performances in Ducks history when he set a franchise single game record with 14 strikeouts on September 15, 2011, at Southern Maryland.
In 2011 he earned an Atlantic League All-Star Game selection and was named a First Team Post-Season All-Star. In the 2011 playoffs, he went 2-0 with a 1.11 ERA in three starts, including a 10-strikeout performance in Game One of the Atlantic League Championship Series vs. York.