LAS VEGAS — Modern-day baseball teams devote hours of manpower toward developing game plans. The process can be painstaking. Like facemasks and shinguards, the color-coded wristbands associated with NFL quarterbacks have become a standard part of the tools of ignorance.



For catchers, there is ever more information to retain. But games are played by humans. There are no guarantees they will stay with the script, even if freewheeling at the wrong time can bring dire consequences.



Gary Sánchez consistently sticks to the game plan better than any of the other catchers on the Yankees roster. And the trust gained by that reliability is part of the reason that he remains in the organization’s plans moving forward, despite his other defensive flaws and his struggles at the plate in 2018.



That’s not to say the Yankees wouldn’t be open to moving the catcher in the right deal. According to sources, as the Mets, Yankees and Marlins worked...