After weeks of speculation around who the Mets would add at catcher, they’ve inked Wilson Ramos to a two-year, $19 million contract, with a team option for 2021. The longtime Met killer (career .302/.330/.491 versus the Mets) is now the stating catcher in Queens for the next two seasons. Let’s break down and grade the move, Brodie Van Wagenen’s second significant free agent addition of the offseson.
Ramos spent 2018 with the Rays and Phillies, where he returned to form after tearing his ACL at the end of the 2016 season and struggling in a half season of action in 2017.