{"id":443886,"date":"2026-01-28T22:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T22:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/443886\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T22:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T22:54:07","slug":"brewers-sign-veteran-catcher-mcguire-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/443886\/","title":{"rendered":"Brewers sign veteran catcher McGuire to minor league deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MILWAUKEE &#8212; Veteran catcher <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/33250\/reese-mcguire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reese McGuire<\/a> has signed a minor league contract with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/mil\/milwaukee-brewers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Milwaukee Brewers<\/a> that includes an invitation to major league camp.<\/p>\n<p>McGuire, who turns 31 on March 2, batted .226 with a .245 on-base percentage, nine homers and 24 RBI in 44 games for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/chc\/chicago-cubs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Cubs<\/a> last season.<\/p>\n<p>He has hit .248 with a .293 on-base percentage, 25 homers and 106 RBI in 399 career games with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/tor\/toronto-blue-jays\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> (2018-21), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/chw\/chicago-white-sox\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago White Sox<\/a> (2022), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/bos\/boston-red-sox\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Red Sox<\/a> (2022-24) and Cubs. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/pit\/pittsburgh-pirates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> selected McGuire with the 14th pick in the 2013 draft.<\/p>\n<p>Two-time All-Star <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/39895\/william-contreras\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">William Contreras<\/a> and 23-year-old prospect <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4917867\/jeferson-quero\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jeferson Quero<\/a> are the only catchers on the Brewers&#8217; 40-man roster. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/35004\/danny-jansen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Danny Jansen<\/a>, who had been Contreras&#8217; main backup after arriving from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/tb\/tampa-bay-rays\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa Bay<\/a> at last season&#8217;s trade deadline, signed a two-year, $14.5 million contract with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/tex\/texas-rangers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Rangers<\/a> in the offseason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILWAUKEE &#8212; Veteran catcher Reese McGuire has signed a minor league contract with the Milwaukee Brewers that includes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-443886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}