People who closely follow the Brewers have been wondering: when is William Contreras\u2019 arbitration hearing? In January, the two sides were separated by $1.35 million and did not come to an agreement. We\u2019ve been waiting for news since then, especially in the last two weeks, as the remaining arbitration cases have been heard.<\/p>\n
Well, Contreras and the Brewers did not require a hearing, after all. They\u2019ve agreed to a one-year deal with a club option for 2027. While terms haven\u2019t yet been disclosed, that\u2019s similar to the 1+1 deal he signed before the 2025 season. Contreras made $6.1 million in 2025, but the Brewers declined their 2026 club option (reportedly worth $12 million), instead preferring to negotiate his arbitration salary again. That move saved them a few million dollars, as Contreras filed at $9.9 million and the Brewers countered at $8.55 million.<\/p>\n
Whether the Brewers decline Contreras\u2019 option after this season or choose to pick it up, they\u2019ll still have his rights through the 2027 season.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ll update this article when we hear the terms of Contreras\u2019s contract. His was the last outstanding case, and all Brewers currently on the team are now signed.<\/p>\n
Update: Jon Heyman has the terms:<\/p>\n
So, depending if Contreras doesn\u2019t reach any of those mysterious Awards Bonuses, the Brewers will have saved $2.6 million by declining the club option for 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People who closely follow the Brewers have been wondering: when is William Contreras\u2019 arbitration hearing? In January, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2401],"tags":[5,136,843,59,4514,4906,4280,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-573776","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-milwaukee-brewers","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-brewers","10":"tag-milwaukee","11":"tag-milwaukee-brewers","12":"tag-milwaukee-brewers-news","13":"tag-milwaukee-brewers-roster","14":"tag-milwaukeebrewers","15":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116074343434594587","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573776","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=573776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}