The backup/fringe starter catcher market has been heating up in the early parts of the offseason, it appears. The Cleveland Guardians re-signed Texas Rangers’ folk hero/glove first backup catcher Austin Hedges to a one year, $4 million deal last week. And today, per reports, Travis d’Arnaud and the Anaheim Angels have agreed to terms on a two years, $12 million deal.
d’Arnaud has seemingly been around forever — he was selected in the first round of the 2017 draft by the Philadelphia Phillies just two selections after the Rangers picked Julio Borbon, and has been traded in his career for Roy Halladay and for R.