The Mets have activated catcher Travis d’Arnaud from the 10-day injured list and optioned fellow backstop Tomas Nido to Triple-A Syracuse, the team announced.
The oft-injured d’Arnaud is in line for his first action in nearly a year, having undergone season-ending Tommy John surgery on his right elbow last April. D’Arnaud and Kevin Plawecki were the Mets’ most prominent catchers at the time, but there has been quite a bit of upheaval behind the plate since then. New York signed current starter Wilson Ramos to a two-year, $19MM contract and traded Plawecki to the Indians during the winter. The Mets, led by rookie general manager Brodie Van Wagenen, elected to retain d’Arnaud for $3.15MM even though he looked like a non-tender candidate.
D’Arnaud, a former star prospect who joined the Mets in a 2012 blockbuster with the Blue Jays, has been a mixed bag when healthy enough to take the field. His lifetime .245/.306/.406 line in 1,469 plate appearances is respectable for a catcher, and he has earned solid marks from Baseball Prospectus’ Fielding Runs Above Average metric. However, thanks in part to injuries, the 30-year-old’s impact has dipped since he combined for 6.1 fWAR from 2014-15. Dating back to 2016, he’s a .244/.297/.393 hitter in 668 PA. D’Arnaud, who’s scheduled for free agency after the season, will now take a backseat to Ramos in his long-awaited return.
Thank goodness Nido is a Jeff Mathis clone at the plate.
That’s an insult to Jeff Mathis
LOL
nido will probably back the other guys is injury prone
Huh?
The only bad move Brody did was keeping d’Arnaud.
A little early to be calling the moves Brody made good or bad. Let’s remember the Mets record at this time in the season last year.
Whatever became if Mes?
Refused to go to Syracuse so he’s on the restricted list
Is he free to change his mind at any time and show up in Syracuse? Unless Syracuse makes a corresponding move to the option of Nido, there are three catchers currently on the roster. If Mes decides to show up, that makes four.
Listen, I’ll say it again, Tomas Nido is a solid catcher in the making, while Travis d’Arnaud is highly overrated. Ramos is just a flat out beast. If the Mets resign d’Arnaud, it’s like signing Craig Kimberly, it’s pointless.
I doubt they will resign him but they probably hope he can produce enough to be able to trade in July.
If only we could fuse Nido and d”Arnaud together then we would have a solid backup catcher.
or a catcher that can’t hit .180 and gets hurt every 5 minutes.
Ha!
Nido should not unpack his bags, it won’t be long until he is needed again.