Report: Jake Bauers agrees to four-year, $58-million take care of Crimson Sox

One of many Milwaukee Brewers’ post-season heroes is getting paid.

Jake Bauers agreed to an four-year, $58-million take care of the Boston Crimson Sox, ESPN’s Jeff Passan reported on Friday.

The 31-year-old first baseman/outfielder had a profession 12 months in 2026, slashing .266/.389/.484 with 26 house runs and 86 RBIs.

Within the post-season, Bauers earned the Nationwide League Championship Sequence MVP honours in Milwaukee’s sweep of the Los Angeles Dodgers. He drove in six runs over the 4 video games whereas going 4-for-14, notably sporting down Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Blake Snell with lengthy at-bats earlier than the aces had been pressured to exit their begins.

It was the excessive level of the playoffs for the seven-year veteran, who compiled a .191/.345/.277 slash line with one homer in the course of the Brewers’ run to the World Sequence.

Milwaukee prolonged Bauers a qualifying supply earlier than free company started, that means that whichever membership acquired his companies must give up a draft choose, whereas the Brewers will obtain draft compensation.

Bauers has additionally frolicked with Tampa Bay, Cleveland, Seattle and the New York Yankees, however couldn’t discover the appropriate match till becoming a member of the Brewers.

Alongside along with his statistical enhancements in 2026, Bauers took a leap in his batted-ball high quality, rating within the ninetieth percentile or higher in hard-hit fee, barrel proportion and common exit velocity.