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According to Mike Rodriguez on Twitter (confirmed by many other sources), the Mets have signed catcher Omar Narváez to a major league deal. The deal is for one-year and a player option for the 2024 season. Jon Heyman of the New York Post reports that Narváez will get $8 million in 2023 and the player option is for $7 million in 2024.
The left-handed hitting Narváez had a rough 2022 season at the plate for the Brewers with a .206/.292/.305 slash line in 84 games. The 30-year-old had a much better offensive season in 2021 when he hit .266/.342/.402 with 20 doubles, 11 home runs, and his lone All-Star appearance. Narváez also had back-to-back seasons of posting a 119 OPS+ in 2018 and 2019.
Narváez has been one of the better framers in baseball over the last three seasons with FanGraphs ranking him second among catchers at 20.2 with their metric that measures framing.
The Mets have James McCann, Tomas Nido, and Francisco Alvarez on the 40-man roster so the catching position is getting very crowded.
