{"id":569308,"date":"2026-02-13T02:46:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T02:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/569308\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T02:46:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T02:46:42","slug":"brewers-contreras-agrees-to-terms-on-1-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/569308\/","title":{"rendered":"Brewers&#8217; Contreras agrees to terms on 1-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MILWAUKEE \u2014 Milwaukee Brewers catcher William Contreras has avoided arbitration after agreeing to a one-year contract with a club option for 2027.<\/p>\n<p>What You Need To Know<\/p>\n<p>Milwaukee Brewers catcher William Contreras has avoided arbitration after agreeing to a one-year contract with a club option for 2027<br \/>\n<br \/>The Brewers have announced the agreement without disclosing terms<br \/>\n<br \/>The figures exchanged for a potential arbitration hearing had Contreras requesting $9.9 million and the team offering $8.55 million<br \/>\n<br \/>This marks the second straight year in which the two-time All-Star has agreed to terms on a deal shortly before a potential arbitration hearing<\/p>\n<p>The Brewers announced the agreement Thursday without disclosing the terms. The figures that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/baseball-1f6cdddbe0f188424d923be5de0f28df\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">had been exchanged<\/a>\u00a0for a potential arbitration hearing had Contreras requesting $9.9 million and the team offering $8.55 million.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the second straight year in which the two-time All-Star has agreed to terms on a deal shortly before a potential arbitration hearing. Contreras agreed to a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/milwaukee-brewers-c849526c881c51fd6c6f36ecccb5cb5a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$6.1 million deal<\/a>\u00a0last year that included a $12 million option for 2026 with a $100,000 buyout. The three-time defending NL Central champion Brewers opted against picking up that 2026 club option.<\/p>\n<p>Contreras, 28, batted .260 with a .355 on-base percentage, 17 homers and 76 RBIs in 150 games last year while dealing with a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/milwaukee-brewers-william-contreras-ffe2fb575eacbeecd3c6a6e4dc1c022f\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fractured left middle finger<\/a>\u00a0for most of the season. He had finished fifth in the NL MVP voting in 2024 and was 11th in the balloting in 2024, his first year with Milwaukee.<\/p>\n<p>His 2025 performance represented a dip in production after he won Silver Slugger awards each of his first two years with the Brewers.<\/p>\n<p>Contreras batted .281 with a .365 on-base percentage, 23 homers and 92 RBIs in 2024. He hit .289 with a .367 on-base percentage, 17 homers and 78 RBIs in 141 games in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>He was selected to the All-Star Game in 2024 as well as in 2022 with the Atlanta Braves.<\/p>\n<p>The Brewers acquired Contreras along with reliever Joel Payamps in Dec. 2022 as part of a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/mlb-sports-atlanta-braves-oakland-athletics-baseball-d1b823caef3399fff322c091eb827b84\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">three-team trade<\/a>\u00a0with the Atlanta Braves and Athletics. The Brewers only gave up outfielder Esteury Ruiz in the deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILWAUKEE \u2014 Milwaukee Brewers catcher William Contreras has avoided arbitration after agreeing to a one-year contract with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2394],"tags":[556,560,1769,191,46,4166,5,192,4,169,185,558,1519],"class_list":{"0":"post-569308","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-braves","8":"tag-app-sports","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-associated-press","11":"tag-atlanta","12":"tag-atlanta-braves","13":"tag-atlantabraves","14":"tag-baseball","15":"tag-braves","16":"tag-mlb","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-wisconsin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116061037170816308","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569308","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=569308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}