{"id":468672,"date":"2026-02-14T18:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T18:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/468672\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T18:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T18:33:07","slug":"brewers-catcher-gary-sanchez-finalize-1-75-million-1-year-deal-with-club-option-for-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/468672\/","title":{"rendered":"Brewers, catcher Gary S\u00e1nchez finalize $1.75 million, 1-year deal with club option for 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Milwaukee Brewers and veteran catcher Gary S\u00e1nchez have finalized a $1.75 million, one-year deal with a mutual option for 2027, the team announced on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>MILWAUKEE(AP) \u2014 The Milwaukee Brewers and veteran catcher Gary S\u00e1nchez have finalized a $1.75 million, one-year deal with a mutual option for 2027, the team announced Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The two sides <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/brewers-gary-sanchez-66921cbd73f3a963bc885f1d87ce3cba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">agreed to a framework for the deal<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>S\u00e1nchez, 33, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/sanchez-brewers-contract-e7465a01e6681e0a74b3c56be3a30f6c\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">played for the Brewers<\/a> in 2024 and batted .220 with a .307 on-base percentage, 11 homers and 37 RBIs in 89 games while backing up two-time All-Star catcher William Contreras and getting some playing time at designated hitter.<\/p>\n<p>S\u00e1nchez, himself a two-time All-Star, spent last year with the Baltimore Orioles and hit .231 with a .297 on-base percentage, five homers and 24 RBIs in 29 games.<\/p>\n<p>S\u00e1nchez has batted .224 with a .309 on-base percentage, 189 homers and 509 RBIs in 859 career regular-season games with the New York Yankees (2015-21), Minnesota Twins (2022), New York Mets (2023), San Diego Padres (2023), Brewers and Orioles.<\/p>\n<p>He was second to Detroit\u2019s Michael Fulmer in the AL rookie of the year voting in 2016. S\u00e1nchez made AL All-Star teams with the Yankees in 2017 and \u201919.<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Milwaukee Brewers and veteran catcher Gary S\u00e1nchez have finalized a $1.75 million, one-year deal with a mutual&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-468672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}