{"id":2257428,"date":"2026-01-30T03:40:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T03:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2257428"},"modified":"2026-01-30T03:40:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T03:40:39","slug":"royals-sign-veteran-right-hander-aaron-sanchez-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/royals-sign-veteran-right-hander-aaron-sanchez-to-minor-league-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals sign veteran right-hander\u00a0Aaron Sanchez\u00a0 to minor league deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Royals have signed veteran right-handed pitcher Aaron Sanchez to a minor league deal, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/fansided.com\/mlb\/sources-royals-to-sign-former-all-star-aaron-sanchez-to-minor-league-contract-01kg01w5sgcv\">according to FanSided reporter Robert Murray<\/a>. Sanchez was an All-Star back in 2016, but hasn\u2019t pitched in the big leagues since 2022. The 33-year-old did not pitch in affiliated baseball last season, but he impressed scouts in the Dominican Winter League, winning Pitcher of the Year honors with a 1.55 ERA in eight starts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Sanchez was originally a first-round pick by the Blue Jays in 2010 and faced the Royals in the 2015 ALCS as a reliever. He went 15-2 with a league-best 3.00 ERA in 2016, earning his only All-Star appearance. It was also the only season he made as many as 30 starts in a year. His season was limited in each of the next two years with blister issues in 2017 and a right-hand contusion in 2018. He struggled in 2019 and was traded to the Astros, where he suffered a torn capsule in his right shoulder, keeping him out the entire 2020 season.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">When he returned, he showed positive signs in 2021 in 35.1 innings with the Giants, posting a 3.06 ERA, but he was ineffective the next year with the Nationals and Twins. He spent time in the Diamondbacks and Blue Jays organizations in 2023 and 2024, but did not pitch in the big leagues. Sanchez was not much of a strikeout pitcher in his prime, but succeeds with high groundball rates, often over 50 percent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Sanchez will receive $1.35 million if he makes the big league roster, with incentives for games pitched. He has opt out clauses on April 15 and May 15.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.royalsreview.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Royals have signed veteran right-handed pitcher Aaron Sanchez to a minor league deal, according to FanSided reporter Robert Murray. Sanchez was an All-Star back in 2016, but hasn\u2019t pitched in the big leagues since 2022. The 33-year-old did not pitch in affiliated baseball last season, but he impressed scouts in the Dominican Winter League, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2257429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[386045,342873,242572,342874],"class_list":["post-2257428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-royals-trade-rumors-hot-stove","tag-royals-trades","tag-signings","tag-transactions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Royals-sign-veteran-right-hander-Aaron-Sanchez-to-minor-league-deal.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2257428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2257430,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257428\/revisions\/2257430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2257429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2257428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2257428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2257428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}