The Milwaukee Brewers are reuniting with catcher Gary Sánchez on a one-year, $1.75 million deal, a league source confirmed to The Athletic’s Will Sammon on Wednesday.

He will likely reprise his 2024 role as backup to William Contreras, who has caught the third-most innings in the majors (3,114 1/3) since being traded to Milwaukee ahead of the 2023 season. The Brewers also have catcher Reese McGuire, who served as a secondary backstop for the Chicago Cubs last year and the Boston Red Sox from 2022-24, in camp on a minor-league deal.

Now 33, Sánchez has not been a consistently impactful player for several years, but he has occasionally tapped into the right-handed power that made him a two-time All-Star and one-time Silver Slugger in his 20s.

He has lately split his time between catcher and designated hitter, typically showing some slugging potential without hitting for average or getting on base at a high rate.

In his most recently productive season, Sánchez hit 19 home runs and slugged .492 while playing mostly for the San Diego Padres in 2023, but he broke his wrist that September and wasn’t nearly as good when he joined the Brewers for 2024. Wrist and knee injuries limited him to just 29 games with the Baltimore Orioles last season, and he slugged .419.

In the early 2010s, though, Sánchez was one of the most highly-touted prospects in the game and briefly one of its most productive catchers. Having made a name for himself as a teenager in the low minors, Sánchez was 23 when he took over as the New York Yankees’ primary catcher in August 2016.

Despite playing only 53 games that season, Sánchez hit 20 home runs and slugged .657 to finish second in AL Rookie of the Year voting. The next season, Sánchez hit 30 home runs, made his first All-Star team and won a Silver Slugger. At 26, he was an All-Star again in 2019.

Since 2020, Sánchez has been a below-average hitter with a 94 OPS+. He’s continued to show some pop (.410 slugging percentage), but he’s batted just .205 with a .291 on-base percentage. He was a solid role player from 2021 to 2023, accumulating 4.2 fWAR in those three seasons, but aside from a few flashes of elite production — a terrific month in 2021, a late-season home run binge in 2023 — Sánchez has not returned to the heights of his mid-20s.

The Orioles brought him on last year in hopes that he would provide some right-handed balance to their left-leaning lineup, but he got off to a slow start, got hurt at the end of April, provided an offense boost when he returned in June and then he got hurt again in July. He finished the season on a rehab assignment in Triple A.

Sánchez played again in the Dominican Winter League this offseason, batting .231/.351/.415 in 22 games for Gigantes del Cibao.