{"id":573518,"date":"2026-02-15T06:28:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T06:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/573518\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T06:28:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T06:28:20","slug":"brewers-catcher-gary-sanchez-finalize-1-75-million-1-year-deal-with-mutual-option-for-2027-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/573518\/","title":{"rendered":"Brewers, catcher Gary S\u00e1nchez finalize $1.75 million, 1-year deal with mutual option for 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"

MILWAUKEE (AP) \u2014 The Milwaukee Brewers and veteran catcher Gary S\u00e1nchez have finalized a $1.75 million, one-year deal with a mutual option for 2027, the team announced Saturday.<\/p>\n

The two sides agreed to a framework for the deal<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

S\u00e1nchez, 33, played for the Brewers<\/a> in 2024 and batted .220 with a .307 on-base percentage, 11 homers and 37 RBIs in 89 games while backing up two-time All-Star catcher William Contreras and getting some playing time at designated hitter.<\/p>\n

S\u00e1nchez, himself a two-time All-Star, spent last year with the Baltimore Orioles and hit .231 with a .297 on-base percentage, five homers and 24 RBIs in 29 games.<\/p>\n

S\u00e1nchez has batted .224 with a .309 on-base percentage, 189 homers and 509 RBIs in 859 career regular-season games with the New York Yankees (2015-21), Minnesota Twins (2022), New York Mets (2023), San Diego Padres (2023), Brewers and Orioles.<\/p>\n

He was second to Detroit\u2019s Michael Fulmer in the AL rookie of the year voting in 2016. S\u00e1nchez made AL All-Star teams with the Yankees in 2017 and \u201919.<\/p>\n

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AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILWAUKEE (AP) \u2014 The Milwaukee Brewers and veteran catcher Gary S\u00e1nchez have finalized a $1.75 million, one-year deal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2401],"tags":[47,5,136,1127,885,843,59,4280,60,4,256,61,62,18,70356,185,9015,3801,1519],"class_list":{"0":"post-573518","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-milwaukee-brewers","8":"tag-baltimore-orioles","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-brewers","11":"tag-gary-sanchez","12":"tag-michael-fulmer","13":"tag-milwaukee","14":"tag-milwaukee-brewers","15":"tag-milwaukeebrewers","16":"tag-minnesota-twins","17":"tag-mlb","18":"tag-mlb-baseball","19":"tag-new-york-mets","20":"tag-new-york-yankees","21":"tag-san-diego-padres","22":"tag-send-to-apple-news","23":"tag-sports","24":"tag-wi-state-wire","25":"tag-william-contreras","26":"tag-wisconsin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116073234652654902","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573518","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=573518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}