{"id":566685,"date":"2026-02-11T18:58:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T18:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/566685\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T18:58:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T18:58:18","slug":"brewers-to-sign-gary-sanchez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/566685\/","title":{"rendered":"Brewers To Sign Gary S\u00e1nchez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Brewers have agreed to terms on a deal with veteran catcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/sanchga02.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-02-11_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Gary S\u00e1nchez<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JonHeyman\/status\/2021656818540589138\" rel=\"nofollow\">reports<\/a> Jon Heyman of the New York Post. The MDR Sports client will be guaranteed $1.75MM on the deal.<\/p>\n<p>S\u00e1nchez, 33, spent the 2025 season with the Orioles organization but was limited to just 30 games and 101 plate appearances due to wrist inflammation and, more seriously, a sprain of the posterior cruciate ligament in his right knee. He was reasonably productive when healthy, popping five homers and turning in a .231\/.297\/.418 batting line (100 wRC+).<\/p>\n<p>This will be S\u00e1nchez\u2019s second stint with the Brewers in the past three seasons. He spent the 2024 campaign in Milwaukee as well, hitting .220\/.307\/.392 with 11 homers in 280 plate appearances. He served as a backup to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/contrwi02.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-02-11_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">William Contreras<\/a> and a part-time (40 games) designated hitter that season and figures to reprise that role in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brewers have agreed to terms on a deal with veteran catcher Gary S\u00e1nchez, reports Jon Heyman of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,1127,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-566685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-gary-sanchez","10":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116053534540204983","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566685","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=566685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}