Different strokes: Baby Bombers visit Network

Gary Sanchez’s swing is more effective than his pen stroke, as six of his young Yankees teammates and countless MLB Network viewers learned Wednesday.

A flaw emerged in the 24-year-old catcher, who’s been able to do seemingly everything on the baseball field since bursting onto the Major League scene more than a month ago. It was Sanchez’s turn in a televised game of Central Scribbles, a baseball adaptation of Pictionary. His drawing was, to put it kindly, amateurish.

“What’s that?” MLB Central host Mark DeRosa said. “That looks like an amoeba!”

“I’m not very good at art,” Sanchez would say through a translator later, laughing. “I’m good at baseball.”

Such was the lighthearted nature of the visit of seven of the Yankees’ brightest young players to MLB Network’s studios in Secaucus, N.J., studios, their first public off-field appearance together as Major Leaguers. Sanchez, Aaron Judge, Greg Bird, Rob Refsnyder, Tyler Austin, Ben Heller and Luis Severino spent an afternoon on camera before their game against the Blue Jays at Yankee Stadium. The segments aired live on MLB Network’s MLB Central, serving as an introduction to the group of rookies and second-year players that have led the Yankees to an 18-12 record since Sanchez’s joined them on Aug. 3.

“We still think we’re dreaming,” said Judge. “But this is exactly where we want to be. …

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