BRADENTON, Fla. -- Gary Sánchez has been very quick to put his time with the Yankees behind him since his arrival in Twins camp. Whether asked about the benefits of a change in scenery or about completing his tumultuous time in the pressure cooker of the Bronx, it's been clear that he doesn't want to focus on that anymore.

"That chapter is done," he said immediately after the trade. "It’s in the past."

Since his arrival in camp, Sánchez seems quite relaxed, Twins catching coach Hank Conger says, free from the microscope and scrutiny of his former market. The Twins just want him to be comfortable, hoping that a reset could help him unlock the talent and potential that once made him the fastest player in American League history to reach 100 career home runs.

However relaxed Sánchez may feel in his new clubhouse, the 29-year-old backstop is already making a mark with his motivation and immediate drive to get right to business with his new coaches and pitching staff.

"You feel [the chemistry here] right away," Sánchez said. "Since the first day, I did. The most important thing I've noticed is the hunger to win and get better. When we're in the cage, everybody's working on different things, but you can tell everybody else is concentrating on things they need to get better at. Everybody's hungry to get all of those things together as a unit to win."

"He looks happy to be here," Conger said. "He's been very vocal as far as what we want to do, game-planning, physical stuff behind the plate. For me, that's always a good sign, because a lot of guys, when they come to a new environment, they tend to be shy and kind of try to read the room. But he's been full go. I've been really happy with that."

Considering Sánchez had so much going on over his first few days with the Twins, Conger initially wanted to ease him into camp following his arrival alongside Gio Urshela in a March 13 trade between the Twins and Yankees.

Instead, Sánchez immediately approached Conger to request videos, heat maps and wristband material relevant to each of the Twins' pitchers and was open-minded right away to suggestions about his posture behind the plate. The Twins had confidence that Sánchez would be motivated to be good when they traded for him, and so far, that has tracked.

"We triangulated as much information as we could around makeup and background," Twins president of baseball operations Derek Falvey said following the trade. "This kid wants to be good. And now, maybe just a reset, sometimes, take a deep breath, go somewhere else and continue to go down that path, will give him that opportunity. The talent is there, and now we just want to continue to help him unlock it."

The defensive ability was a frequent topic of concern throughout Sánchez's time in the Bronx, and the numbers back that up; he's accounted for 60 passed balls since his debut in 2015, second-most in the Majors in that time, and 222 wild pitches, ranking seventh.

According to Baseball Savant, Sánchez ranked 55th among 59 qualified catchers with minus-6 catcher framing runs last season and has ranked among the league's nine worst backstops in each of the last three years in the metric, with the bottom of the zone serving as a persistent area of challenge.

There's no cookie-cutter way to approach that, says Conger, who is entering his first season as a big league coach. Sánchez understands the data, and you can see the evolution of his process as he, too, has grown to adopt the one-knee stance heavily used by Twins catchers to better control the bottom of the zone. Some, like Ryan Jeffers, adapt to that better with the ability to get really low in his stance due to his flexibility.

Instead, Conger hopes to work with Sánchez to make improvements within the context of what makes Sánchez most comfortable as a blocker, both with men on base and with the bases empty. They started with suggestions about the width of his stance, and Conger is also big on making sure Sánchez can be responsive to the various types of pitchers he'll see on the Twins' staff, whether it's those with riding fastballs like Joe Ryan and Bailey Ober or sinkerballers like Randy Dobnak.

"It's just getting him into a comfortable stance where he doesn't feel locked up on any certain pitch," Conger said. "But as we know, with catchers, the bottom of the zone is obviously the toughest one to get, because you've got to have that certain angle and that certain wrist action to work underneath the baseball."

Still, there's an awareness among both Conger and manager Rocco Baldelli that only so much work can be done in an abbreviated camp this spring. They just want Sánchez to find what's comfortable for him and continue making suggestions along the way as he grows to learn the pitching staff and how the Twins operate.

They're confident that he'll adapt quickly.

"He’s a motivated guy," Baldelli said. "I think he’s enjoying his time in camp, but he’s going to be a guy that we’re going to keep working. We’re not going be satisfied with what we have. We ask all of our guys, including our new players and guys that are coming in, to just continue to keep working and keep getting better. I think he’s going to have no issue with that whatsoever."