{"id":145299,"date":"2026-03-22T13:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T13:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/145299\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T13:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T13:56:11","slug":"phillies-ace-cristopher-sanchez-agrees-to-new-6-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/145299\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies ace Cristopher Sanchez agrees to new 6-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ESPN logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/origin-espn.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Sunday, March 22, 2026 1:33PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">The <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/phi\/philadelphia-phillies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Philadelphia Phillies<\/a> have agreed to a new six-year contract with ace left-hander <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/42359\/cristopher-sanchez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cristopher Sanchez<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The team announced Sunday that the deal will start in 2027 and includes a team option for 2033.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Financial terms were not disclosed, but The Athletic reported that Sanchez will make $107 million over the next seven seasons, including his $3.5 million salary for 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Sanchez, 29, has emerged as one of baseball&#8217;s top starting pitchers over his last two seasons with the Phillies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">After his breakout All-Star season in 2024, Sanchez was even better last season, going 13-5 with a 2.50 ERA and finishing second for the National League Cy Young Award.br\/]<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunday, March 22, 2026 1:33PM The Philadelphia Phillies have agreed to a new six-year contract with ace left-hander&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[66317,1421,1423,139,69,71,70,1425,66316],"class_list":["post-145299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-66317","tag-espn","tag-mlb","tag-news","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-sanchez-cristopher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}