The Braves introduced they’ve signed catcher Travis d’Arnaud to a one-year, $8MM deal overlaying the 2024 season. The contract additionally accommodates an $8MM membership choice for the ’25 season with no buyout. d’Arnaud is represented by Wasserman.
Atlanta managed d’Arnaud on an $8MM workforce choice for 2024. They’ll preemptively set off that provision. In alternate, the veteran backstop provides the workforce an identical provision for the next yr. It’s acquainted territory for an Atlanta group that has been very aggressive about signing gamers to extensions.
Additionally it is a cushty spot for d’Arnaud himself. He’s now signed a trio of contracts with the Braves over the previous half-decade. He first agreed on a two-year, $16MM deal in free company over the 2019-20 offseason. Halfway by means of the ’21 season, he re-upped on an identical $16MM contract that contained the ’24 choice. He’s now locked in for a fifth marketing campaign at Truist Park.
Now 34, d’Arnaud has been an efficient backstop all through his time within the group. He hit .266/.324/.462 over his first three seasons as a Courageous. Catching wasn’t a necessity final winter, however the Atlanta entrance workplace seized on the chance so as to add a star catcher on the commerce market. Atlanta acquired and promptly prolonged Sean Murphy over the winter, pushing d’Arnaud right into a reserve function.
Whereas he’s overqualified for a #2 catching place, the previous All-Star has taken his new function in stride. d’Arnaud carries a .265/.338/.478 line with eight house runs by means of 151 journeys to the plate on the season. He’s strolling at a personal-high 9.3% clip and has maintained his earlier contact and energy manufacturing on a fee foundation. d’Arnaud has gotten 27 begins behind the plate in comparison with Murphy’s 60 nods.
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