The Los Angeles Angels on Tuesday announced they agreed to a two-year, $12 million deal with veteran catcher Travis d’Arnaud.
The 35-year-old, who won the 2021 World Series with the Atlanta Braves and has spent almost the entirety of his career in the National League East, will presumably serve as a backup to Logan O’Hoppe.
D’Arnaud was an All-Star in 2022, when he hit .268/.319/.472 over 107 games. Across the last five seasons, all with Atlanta, he batted .251/.312/.443 with 60 homers and 207 RBIs.
D’Arnaud, a Long Beach, Calif., native, was drafted in the first round out of Lakewood High by the Philadelphia Phillies in 2007. A couple of years later, he was traded to the Toronto Blue Jays, who eventually sent him and Noah Syndergaard to the New York Mets in the R.A. Dickey deal in December 2012. D’Arnaud made his major-league debut with New York in 2013.
D’Arnaud reunites with Angels general manager Perry Minasian, who was with Toronto when the catcher arrived in the organization and was later with Atlanta when d’Arnaud signed with the Braves.
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