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Travis d'Arnaud signs free agent contract with Angels

Travis d'Arnaud signs free agent contract with Angels

\n\n”,”providerName”:”Twitter”,”providerUrl”:” — The Angels made further moves early in the offseason, signing catcher Travis d'Arnaud to a two-year, $12 million contract on Tuesday. 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ANAHEIM — The Angels continued making moves early in the offseason, signing catcher Travis d’Arnaud to a two-year, $12 million contract on Tuesday. The move comes on the heels of adding Kyle Hendricks to the rotation last week as well as making trades for slugger Jorge Soler and infielder Scott Kingery.

Though he hasn’t quite replicated his Silver Slugger-winning campaign from the COVID-shortened 2020 campaign or his All-Star season from ’22, the veteran backstop is coming off another solid campaign with the Braves. d’Arnaud, who will turn 36 in February, racked up 15 home runs and 48 RBIs in just 99 games for Atlanta last season, all while posting a 103 OPS+.

d’Arnaud, who attended Lakewood High School about 15 miles west of Angel Stadium, also brings veteran leadership and can serve as a mentor to catcher Logan O’Hoppe and the club’s young pitching staff. But it means that fellow backstop Matt Thaiss’ future with the club is up in the air, as he’s out of Minor League options.

“Going through the offseason, we felt like adding some experience behind the plate would be really, really important,” Angels general manager Perry Minasian said. “Not that Matt did a bad job. Matt is a young catcher who’s coming into his own, who really worked hard and will continue to work hard and have a successful career, But Travis just really stuck out for us. [He’s] Someone who could not only play at a high level, but whose composition was off the charts.”

d'Arnaud has hit 76 homers over the last six seasons while posting 6.1 bWAR. The 76 home runs ranked seventh among catchers during that span – and d'Arnaud's 487 games played during that span are significantly fewer than any of the six players ahead of him on the list. He slashed .248/.309/.426 in 12 seasons and had a .238/.302/.436 line last year.

But he will play a backup role behind O'Hoppe, who caught 127 games last season in his first full year as a backstop but struggled in the second half (.578 OPS). While Minasian doesn't believe it was due to overuse, he is glad they improved the depth behind the plate.

“I don’t necessarily think it was that [O’Hoppe] “I played too much,” Minasian said. “I think people go through slides. He is a young player. So it definitely helps when you have someone like Travis. Catching is so important and having two players of this caliber on the same team makes us feel like we give ourselves a great chance to win every day.”

A key factor in the Braves' title run in 2021, d'Arnaud hit two of his 10 postseason home runs during the 2021 World Series against the Astros. Angels manager Ron Washington worked with d'Arnaud as Atlanta's third base coach from 2020 to 2023. The Halos also hire Sal Fasano as assistant pitching coach after he served as the Braves' catching coach under d'Arnaud from 2020-24.

Defensively, d'Arnaud had his ups and downs. He was a below-average defender for most of his career, including posting a career-worst Defensive Runs Saved (DRS) of -7 in the shortened 2020 season. He then posted 10 DRS over the next three seasons, including a career-best 6 DRS in 2022, before finishing last season with -6 DRS. But Minasian praised his playing ability and his ability to work with pitchers.

“He has the ability to impact the locker room as positively as anyone I’ve ever been around,” Minasian said. “He’s great with young pitching, he’s great with coaching staff, he’s great with management. He’s just a great guy.”

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