{"id":262879,"date":"2025-11-05T07:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T07:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/262879\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T07:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T07:52:08","slug":"william-contreras-undergoes-finger-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/262879\/","title":{"rendered":"William Contreras Undergoes Finger Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brewers catcher\u00a0William Contreras<\/a> underwent a minor procedure to repair his broken left middle finger, president of baseball operations Matt Arnold told reporters (link via Adam McCalvy of MLB.com<\/a>). It\u2019ll keep him from participating in baseball activities for 5-6 weeks but is not expected to impact his availability for Spring Training.<\/p>\n

Contreras played through the fracture for the entire 2025 season. The injury is believed to have occurred during the \u201924 campaign, though the team didn\u2019t announce the presence of a break until this past May. Contreras did not spend any time on the injured list and has not had a single IL stint in his career. Only J.T. Realmuto<\/a> logged more starts or innings behind the dish this year.<\/p>\n

The injury did seem to weigh down Contreras a little bit at the plate. He hit .260\/.355\/.399 with 17 home runs through 659 trips. That\u2019s still strong production, especially from a catcher, but is below the .285\/.366\/.462 combined slash he posted over his first two seasons in Milwaukee.<\/p>\n

Milwaukee declined<\/a> a $12MM option on Contreras this afternoon. That\u2019s a procedural move that isn\u2019t related to the injury. He remains eligible for arbitration. MLBTR contributor Matt Swartz projects<\/a> him for an $11.1MM salary. Contreras collected a $100K option buyout, so any arbitration salary under $11.9MM would mean the Brew Crew saved themselves a little bit of money with the option decision. Contreras will go through arbitration once more and is on track to hit free agency during the 2027-28 offseason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brewers catcher\u00a0William Contreras underwent a minor procedure to repair his broken left middle finger, president of baseball operations…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82,96830],"class_list":{"0":"post-262879","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-william-contreras"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}