This is a weird one, to be sure.
In the downtime period between big splash signings—I’ll get to Correa soon, I promise—the Mets made one of the odder additions of the offseason, signing catcher Omar Narváez to a one-year, $8 million deal with a $7 million player option for 2024. With a bevy of catchers on the roster—including an MLB-ready, global top-five prospect in Francisco Álvarez—the fit here is difficult to understand.
Narváez is a...