{"id":542941,"date":"2026-01-28T21:17:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T21:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/542941\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T21:17:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T21:17:13","slug":"former-toronto-blue-jays-catcher-reese-mcguire-joins-milwaukee-brewers-on-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/542941\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Toronto Blue Jays catcher Reese McGuire joins Milwaukee Brewers on minor-league deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/reese-mcguire\/737505\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/reese-mcguire\/737505\" target=\"_blank\">Reese McGuire<\/a> has joined the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/milwaukee-brewers\/232\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/milwaukee-brewers\/232\" target=\"_blank\">Milwaukee Brewers<\/a> on a minor-league deal, <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/cyrthogg.bsky.social\/post\/3mdj2s5bvsc2u\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/cyrthogg.bsky.social\/post\/3mdj2s5bvsc2u\">Curt Hogg of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/toronto-blue-jays\/238\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/toronto-blue-jays\/238\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> catcher will also be invited to spring training.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A 30-year-old native of Seattle, McGuire spent last season with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/chicago-cubs\/240\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/chicago-cubs\/240\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Cubs<\/a>. He appeared in 140 games, batting .226 with 30 hits, nine home runs, 24 runs batted in and an OPS of .688.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 14th overall pick of the 2013 MLB Amateur Draft by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/pittsburgh-pirates\/247\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/pittsburgh-pirates\/247\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a>, McGuire made his big league debut for the Blue Jays in 2018. He was traded by the Jays ahead of the 2022 season to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/chicago-white-sox\/228\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/chicago-white-sox\/228\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago White Sox<\/a> before being flipped to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/boston-red-sox\/226\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/boston-red-sox\/226\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Red Sox<\/a> later that year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In 399 games over eight seasons with the Cubs, Red Sox, White Sox and Blue Jays, McGuire has batted .248 with 267 hits, 25 home runs, 106 runs batted in and a .667 OPS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reese McGuire has joined the Milwaukee Brewers on a minor-league deal, Curt Hogg of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2378],"tags":[30173,5,377,2554,48164,4,71753,282,70,2553],"class_list":{"0":"post-542941","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-blue-jays","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-blue-jays","11":"tag-bluejays","12":"tag-milwaukee-brewers-sports-baseball-team-team-statscom-232","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-reese-mcguire-sports-baseball-player-player-statscom-737505","15":"tag-toronto","16":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","17":"tag-torontobluejays"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115974808890297663","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542941","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=542941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}