{"id":673815,"date":"2026-03-22T13:11:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T13:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/673815\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T13:11:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T13:11:12","slug":"phillies-extend-ace-cris-sanchez-even-further-through-2032-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/673815\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies extend ace Cris S\u00e1nchez even further, through 2032 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t even think about\u00a0Cristopher S\u00e1nchez playing for another franchise.<\/p>\n<p>The Phillies ace \u2014 who came in second for NL Cy Young last season with a league-best 8.0 WAR \u2014 was already inked with the Phillies through 2027 with an extension he signed a four-year deal back before the 2025 season worth around $22 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His most recent performance has the Phillies unwilling to risk seeing him walk a few seasons from now. On Sunday morning the team announced they had reached a deal to keep\u00a0S\u00e1nchez, 29, in Philly through the 2032 season. The deal also has a club option for the 2033 season.<\/p>\n<p>S\u00e1nchez is now the sixth Phillie who will be under contract past the 2030 season, joining Trea Turner, Bryce Harper and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phillyvoice.com\/report-phillies-jesus-luzardo-blockbuster-extension-contract-spring-training\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recently Jes\u00fas Luzardo<\/a>. The left-hander will start on Opening Day for the first time in his career next week.<\/p>\n<p>Reports say the deal will pay him at least $107 million leading up to the option year.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The new contract guarantees Cristopher S\u00e1nchez $107 million through 2032, including his $3.5 million salary in 2026, according to a league source.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Gelb (@MattGelb) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MattGelb\/status\/2035702010218004498?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 22, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The extension \u2014 with\u00a0S\u00e1nchez under contract for at least two more years \u2014 is an precedented move among Major League Baseball front offices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"center\"><b>SIGN UP HERE<\/b> to receive the <a data-original-title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.phillyvoice.com\/newsletters\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PhillyVoice Sports newsletter<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15.36px;\">Follow Evan on Twitter:<a data-original-title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/evan_macy\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@evan_macy<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15.36px;\">Like us on Facebook:\u00a0<a data-original-title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/phillyvoicesports\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PhillyVoice Sports<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t even think about\u00a0Cristopher S\u00e1nchez playing for another franchise. The Phillies ace \u2014 who came in second for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":673816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[41],"tags":[149325,1266,1311,20414,62,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-673815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-cristopher-sanchez","tag-mlb","tag-philadelphia","tag-phillies","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116273000371373986","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}