{"id":437046,"date":"2026-01-27T19:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T19:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/437046\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T19:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T19:19:08","slug":"report-aaron-sanchez-royals-agree-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/437046\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Aaron Sanchez, Royals agree to minor-league deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The veteran right-hander agreed to a minor-league contract with the Royals that includes an invite to spring training, MLB insider Robert Murray <a href=\"https:\/\/fansided.com\/mlb\/sources-royals-to-sign-former-all-star-aaron-sanchez-to-minor-league-contract-01kg01w5sgcv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Sanchez, 33, last pitched in the majors in 2022 when he appeared in 15 games for the Minnesota Twins and Washington Nationals. He pitched in triple-A in 2023 and 2024 and most recently made eight starts in the Dominican Winter League.<\/p>\n<p>His best seasons came with the Toronto Blue Jays, including in 2016 when he was an all-star. Sanchez pitched six seasons with the Blue Jays from 2014 until a trade to the Houston Astros in the middle of the 2019 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Sanchez has pitched in 174 MLB games over his career, including 113 starts, posting a 4.16 ERA with 541 strikeouts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The veteran right-hander agreed to a minor-league contract with the Royals that includes an invite to spring training,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-437046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437046","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=437046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}