{"id":637512,"date":"2026-03-22T17:45:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T17:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/637512\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T17:45:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T17:45:40","slug":"phillies-reward-cristopher-sanchez-with-new-107-million-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/637512\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies reward Cristopher Sanchez with new $107 million contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After signing a modest $22.5 million extension in the summer of 2024, it didn\u2019t take long for star southpaw Cristopher Sanchez to prove he was severely underpaid.<\/p>\n<p>It took even less time for Philadelphia brass to do something about it.<\/p>\n<p>The Phillies and Sanchez have agreed to a new contract extension \u2014 a six-year deal with $107 million guaranteed, rewarding their ace for a breakout campaign in 2025, The Post\u2019s Jon Heyman confirmed Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.57296467;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38858934\" width=\"928\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/61-philadelphia-phillies-throws-pitch-111117690.jpg\" alt=\"Phillies ace Cristopher Sanchez\" class=\"wp-image-38858934\"  \/>Phillies ace Cristopher Sanchez agreed to a new extension with the team. Corey Sipkin for the NY POST<\/p>\n<p>Sanchez, 29, was already signed through 2028 with team options for 2029 and 2030. Now, he\u2019s inked through 2032, with a club option for 2033.<\/p>\n<p>The lefty\u2019s agent, Gene Mato, credited Phillies owner John Middleton and president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski for taking care of their ace, when they certainly didn\u2019t have to.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJohn and Dave stepped up and decided to reward Cristopher with a deal more than commensurate with his abilities even though the club still had five years of control at minimal dollars,\u201d Mato said, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7138033\/2026\/03\/22\/cristopher-sanchez-phillies-contract-extension\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">via The Athletic<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s really unprecedented.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38858936\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/dominican-republic-pitcher-cristopher-s-122948141.jpg\" alt=\"Cristopher Sanchez World Baseball Classic Dominican Republic\" class=\"wp-image-38858936\"  \/>Cristopher Sanchez played for the Dominican Republic national team during the 2026 World Baseball Classic. Jim Rassol-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>Sanchez\u2019s amended deal comes hot on the heels of a torrid 2025, when he finished second in the National League Cy Young race behind Paul Skenes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The sinkerballer with a filthy changeup boasted a 2.50 ERA with 212 strikeouts across 32 starts (202 innings) before hurling a pair of dominant October outings in the NLCS against the eventual champion Dodgers.<\/p>\n<p>He later made <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/world-baseball-classic\/news\/cristopher-sanchez-four-strikeout-inning-in-2026-world-baseball-classic?msockid=0f5b5d8c68fa613b14c14be469e76098\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Baseball Classic history<\/a> as the first pitcher to strike out four batters in a single inning in the tournament\u2019s history, doing so while representing the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n<p>Sanchez\u2019s 8.0 bWAR last season was greater than that of Skenes (7.7), Tarik Skubal (6.5), and Garret Crochet (6.3) \u2014 along with every other pitcher on the planet, for that matter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s now set to start Opening Day for the first time in his career at home against the Texas Rangers on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After signing a modest $22.5 million extension in the summer of 2024, it didn\u2019t take long for star&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2397],"tags":[5,4,144,25,4216,40,185,38606],"class_list":{"0":"post-637512","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-phillies","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-philadelphia","11":"tag-philadelphia-phillies","12":"tag-philadelphiaphillies","13":"tag-phillies","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-sports-contracts"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116274078007851969","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637512","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=637512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}