Gary Sanchez Signs 1-year, $7 Million Contract with Brewers

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00:03 All right, Gary Sanchez is also a brewer all of a sudden here out of nowhere.

00:08 One year $7 million contract, a lot of incentives, there's a smaller base here.

00:13 Look, Sanchez as a catcher, Jeff has been mixed.

00:18 I think we would establish that.

00:20 He sort of revitalized himself a little bit with the Padres,

00:23 bounced around the league here a little bit.

00:25 Another sort of buy low for the brewers to say, hey, look, come in,

00:29 hit as many bombs as you can, we'll figure it out.

00:31 We'll figure out somewhere to play, right?

00:34 >> Yeah, I think it's add another bat, right?

00:36 He's been around a long time.

00:38 He can give you some innings behind the plate.

00:39 The brewers don't necessarily have a backup catcher.

00:42 Victor Caratini signed as a free agent in the offseason, left somewhere else.

00:47 So you've got William Contreras, who you'd love to have behind the plate as

00:51 much as you can.

00:52 But Gary Sanchez improved a lot defensively last year.

00:55 And you don't have a guy like Blake Snell, who can be very,

00:58 very finicky with his control to say the least at times.

01:02 And he was applauding Gary Sanchez.

01:04 I mean, really when you go back to when Blake Snell took off last year,

01:07 it was when Gary Sanchez was behind the plate for him.

01:11 So maybe he's gotten a little defensively.

01:14 The brewers have done a really good job in cultivating these catchers.

01:18 You go back to Manny Pini, he has Manny Grandal, Omar Narvaez.

01:22 And now what they have with William Contreras,

01:26 their catchers have supremely improved since the 2017-ish season.

01:32 So maybe they can get their hands on Gary Sanchez and help him continue to get

01:36 better defensively while he continues to hit.

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