{"id":514316,"date":"2026-01-11T01:52:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T01:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/514316\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T01:52:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T01:52:15","slug":"giants-veteran-catcher-eric-haase-reportedly-agree-to-minor-league-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/514316\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants, veteran catcher Eric Haase reportedly agree to minor league contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/mlb\/san-francisco-giants\/eric-haase-minor-league-contract\/1906040\/?partner=yahoo&amp;cid=yahoo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Giants, veteran catcher Eric Haase reportedly agree to minor league contract;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Giants, veteran catcher Eric Haase reportedly agree to minor league contract<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com?cid=yahoo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:NBC Sports Bay Area;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">NBC Sports Bay Area<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Giants reportedly are bringing in some more catching depth for the 2026 MLB season.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco has agreed to a minor-league contract with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/h\/haaseer01.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:veteran catcher Eric Haase;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">veteran catcher Eric Haase<\/a>, MLB Network\u2019s Jon Morosi reported Friday, citing a source.<\/p>\n<p>The contract is worth $1.6 million if he makes the Giants roster and includes an invitation to spring training next month with an opt-out afterward, per Morosi\u2019s report.<\/p>\n<p>Haase, 33, is an eight-year MLB veteran who has spent time with the Cleveland Guardians, Detroit Tigers and Milwaukee Brewers. Across 383 career games, he has incurred .228\/.278\/.396 splits with 48 home runs. His best season came with his hometown Detroit in 2022, when he slashed .254\/.305\/.443 with 14 home runs over 110 games.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The former seventh-round pick in the 2011 MLB Draft also offers some defensive versatility for San Francisco, as Haase has made 57 career appearances in the outfield. At catcher, Haase ranked third in MLB in caught stealing percentage in both 2021 and 2022, throwing out nearly a third of would-be base stealers.<\/p>\n<p>Haase is set to compete with three catchers on the Giants\u2019 current 40-man roster \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/bailepa01.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Patrick Bailey;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Patrick Bailey<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=rodrig019jes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Jes\u00fas Rodr\u00edguez;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Jes\u00fas Rodr\u00edguez<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=susac-000dan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Daniel Susac;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Daniel Susac<\/a> \u2014 for a spot on the Opening Day squad.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/giants-talk-a-san-francisco-giants-podcast.simplecast.com\/episodes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Download and follow the Giants Talk Podcast;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Download and follow the Giants Talk Podcast<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Giants, veteran catcher Eric Haase reportedly agree to minor league contract originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2408],"tags":[5,3518,51,61398,53,5759,162,68108,16008,9589,59,20755,4,7661,378,66,4343,4340,4344,4341,4342,151,852],"class_list":["post-514316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco-giants","tag-baseball","tag-catcher","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-daniel-susac","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-eric-haase","tag-giants","tag-giants-roster","tag-jesus-rodriguez","tag-jon-morosi","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-minor-league-contract","tag-mlb","tag-patrick-bailey","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-giants","tag-sanfrancisco","tag-sanfranciscogiants","tag-sf","tag-sf-giants","tag-sfgiants","tag-spring-training","tag-the-giants"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115873968846043189","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}