The Milwaukee Brewers signed veteran catcher Gary Sanchez to a one-year, $1.75 million contract, according to multiple reports Wednesday. Jon Heyman of the New York Post was first to report the news on Twitter/X.
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Sanchez, 33, returns to the Brewers after playing 29 major league games last season for the Baltimore Orioles.
In his only season in Baltimore, Sanchez missed time with injuries to his right wrist and right knee. When healthy, he slashed .231/.297/.418.
In 2024, Sanchez backed up All-Star William Contreras in Milwaukee and slashed .220/.297/.418 in 89 games.
A veteran of 11 major league seasons, Sanchez was the runner-up to the American League Rookie of the Year award with the New York Yankees in 2016. In 2017, he made the first of two AL All-Star teams in New York.
From 2021-25, Sanchez bounced around the league — from the Yankees to the Minnesota Twins, the New York Mets, San Diego Padres, Brewers and Orioles — mostly in a backup role.
Now he’ll be the clear number-2 again to Contreras, who played through a fracture in his left middle finger last year — in part because of his value to a Brewers team that won an MLB-best 97 games in 2025.
Milwaukee won the NL Central division but was swept in a four-game NL Championship Series by the eventual champion Los Angeles Dodgers.
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