The Brewers announced that catcher Omar Narvaez has been placed on the 10-day injured list with a left quad strain. Fellow catcher Mario Feliciano has been recalled to take his place on the active roster.
The severity of the injury isn’t clear but the timing is particularly unfortunate for the Brewers, who had been carrying three catchers in recent weeks, with Narvaez, Victor Caratini and Pedro Severino all on the roster. They even got some trade interest on Narvaez leading up to the deadline, but ending up holding all three until yesterday afternoon when Severino was designated for assignment. A few hours after that, Narvaez injured his quad and a catching surplus suddenly turned into a deficit.
Narvaez has played 60 games on the season, hitting .237/.324/.363. That’s amounts to a wRC+ of 94, or 6% below the league average hitter, but slightly above the league average of 88 wRC+ for catchers. The left-handed hitting Narvaez and the switch-hitting Caratini have formed a platoon this year, with the latter playing 54 games and hitting .230/.350/.405 for a wRC+ of 116. Each also has quality defensive numbers, allowing Narvaez to accrue 1.3 fWAR on the year to Caratini’s 1.5
With Severino gone and Narvaez on the shelf, Caratini will likely step into a larger role with Feliciano as the backup. Feliciano jas just one MLB plate appearance to his name (a walk) but has hit .288/.346/.382 in Triple-A for a 97 wRC+. If Severino clears waivers and elects free agency, it’s possible that the Brewers could re-sign him and send Feliciano back down to the minors.
Oops, Severino would be useful right now.
He sucks at defense
At least we have a lockdown closer…wait
when did we have that since June started?
It just feels like a lot of karma is coming sterns way right now, this team is absolutely deflated. Ownership is fine getting paid for a couple home playoff games a year and that’s it
All you gotta do is listen to Devin Williams comments on the Hader trade. He completely lost the clubhouse. They ain’t making the playoffs. This will deflate team chemistry.
Completely agree. Yeah it’s a business but you don’t rub that in the players’ and coaches’ faces. And you don’t subtract one of the best in baseball in a pennant race. I have been huge fans of ownership and Stearns but they are going to pay a heavy price for this.
Completely agree. Yeah it’s a business but you don’t rub that in the players’ and coaches’ faces. And you don’t subtract one of the best in baseball in a pennant race. Very disappointing.
Devin Williams should STFU and try to seize the opportunity he’s been given.
I disagree. He had his teammates back. Brewers will prevail because they have starting pitching and Cardinals missed out on Soto.
The Brewers could ask the Tigers for Barnhart. He will be available.
Gruß,
BSHH
They did away with waiver wire trades after the deadline. I’m sure they have ways to prevent teams from skirting around it. I would guess a team that places a player on waivers would not be able to claim a player on waivers from the claiming team at any level of the organization for the rest of the season.
Barnhart would be available for the regular season. Narvaez is going to come back in time for playoff action, isn’t he?
Gruß,
BSHH
Now we know why he didn’t get traded.
Even with Narvaez hurt it was time to get rid of Severino. It’s time to start seeing what these younger guys can do. St Louis does this all the time with their younger guys. We gotta push them more .
Lol the brewers front office execs are running this franchise lately like a bunch og drunken sailors with blinders on
Not bad!
Lol the brewers front office execs are running this franchise lately like a bunch of drunken sailors with blinders on
The Central will be STL’s in due time.
The brewers front office is running this franchise lately like a bunch of drunk sailors on acid lol Case in point a team who’s in first place with WS aspirations doesn’t trade the best closer in baseball
SAY IT AGAIN
NO!