There’s something similar about Brewin with Gary Sanchez.
The former Yankees and Mets catcher signed a one-year, $7 million contract with the Brewers on Wednesday. The paper’s reporter Jon Heyman reported.
The contract includes an option for 2025.
Milwaukee already has Silver Slugger winner William Contreras at the plate, and the addition of Sanchez gives them another option to use him as a designated hitter.
Sanchez bounced back a bit last season and started the 2023 season with the Giants, appearing in 16 games with Triple-A Sacramento before signing with the Mets in May after being released.
He played three games with the Mets and eventually found a permanent spot with the Padres, appearing in 72 games and batting .218 with 19 home runs and 46 RBIs.
His season was cut short by a broken wrist in early September, but he has shown positive signs over the past two seasons, posting a +7 earned run average at the plate in 2023.
Sanchez, 31, spent the first seven years of his career with the Yankees in the Bronx after making his major league debut in 2015.
He finished the 2016 season in second place in AL Rookie of the Year voting, hitting .299/.376/.657 with 20 home runs in 53 games.
Sanchez was named to the MLB All-Star team twice during his time with the Yankees, in 2017 and 2019, and won the Silver Slugger Award in 2017.
The Yankees traded Sanchez to the Twins in the spring of 2022 in a deal that sent Gio Urshela to Minnesota in exchange for Josh Donaldson, Isaiah Kinner-Falefa and Ben Rotvedt.
The Brewers have been busy lately, trading ace Corbin Burnes to the Orioles last Thursday and signing first baseman Reece Hoskins to a two-year contract.
Milwaukee is coming off a 92-70 season in which they lost to the Diamondbacks in the National League wild card round.
