Carlos Narvaez

Carlos Narvaez

26-Year-Old CatcherC
Boston Red Sox
2025 Fantasy Outlook
The Red Sox were already in the market for potential backup catchers when they shipped prosect Kyle Teel to the White Sox as part of the package to acquire Garrett Crochet. Narvaez was first of two backstops acquired via trade during the offseason, and he'll compete with the second acquisition, Blake Sobol, to back up Connor Wong. Sabol (121 games) has more MLB experience than Narvaez (six), but the latter was better in the minors at throwing out would-be base stealers. Wong has been durable since elevating to Boston's top catcher, playing 126 games in each of the last two seasons. The victor in the Narvaez/Sabol battle is not expected to get many starts. Read Past Outlooks
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$Signed a one-year contract with the Red Sox in March of 2025.
Belts two-run homer Saturday
CBoston Red Sox
May 10, 2025
Narvaez went 3-for-4 with a two-run home run and an additional run scored in Saturday's 10-1 win over Kansas City.
ANALYSIS
Narvaez crossed home plate in the fifth frame on a Rafael Devers RBI single, and the former extended Boston's lead to eight runs in the eighth with a two-run blast off Angel Zerpa. While Connor Wong's return from the injured list has led to less playing time for Narvaez, the 26-year-old has done well at the plate as of late. Over his last eight starts, Narvaez has gone 10-for-29 (.344) with five runs scored, two home runs and seven RBI.
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Batting Order Slot Breakdown
vs Right-Handed Pitchers
vs RHP
#1
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
#8
#9
1
9
10
vs Left-Handed Pitchers
vs LHP
#1
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
#8
#9
5
Left/Right Batting Splits
Since 2023
 
 
+20%
OPS vs LHP
2025
 
 
+40%
OPS vs LHP
2024
 
 
+119%
OPS vs RHP
2023
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OPS PA R HR RBI SB AVG OBP SLG
Since 2023vs Left .808 32 6 2 5 0 .250 .344 .464
Since 2023vs Right .674 85 8 2 8 0 .241 .294 .380
2025vs Left .930 26 6 2 5 0 .273 .385 .545
2025vs Right .665 76 8 2 8 0 .236 .276 .389
2024vs Left .333 6 0 0 0 0 .167 .167 .167
2024vs Right .730 9 0 0 0 0 .286 .444 .286
2023vs Left 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2023vs Right 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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Home/Away Batting Splits
Since 2023
 
 
+38%
OPS at Home
2025
 
 
+38%
OPS at Home
2024
 
 
+63%
OPS at Home
2023
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OPS PA R HR RBI SB AVG OBP SLG
Since 2023Home .822 60 7 2 8 0 .264 .350 .472
Since 2023Away .596 57 7 2 5 0 .222 .263 .333
2025Home .851 50 7 2 8 0 .267 .340 .511
2025Away .616 52 7 2 5 0 .224 .269 .347
2024Home .650 10 0 0 0 0 .250 .400 .250
2024Away .400 5 0 0 0 0 .200 .200 .200
2023Home 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2023Away 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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Stat Review
How does Carlos Narvaez compare to other hitters?
This section compares his stats with all batting seasons from the previous three seasons (minimum 400 plate appearances)*. The bar represents the player's percentile rank. For example, if the bar is halfway across, then the player falls into the 50th percentile for that stat and it would be considered average.

* Exit Velocity and Barrels/PA % are benchmarked against 2019 data (min 400 PA) and Hard Hit Rate is benchmarked against last season's data (min 400 PA). See here for more exit velocity/barrels stats plus an explanation of current limitations with that data set.
  • BB/K
    Walk to strikeout ratio
  • BB Rate
    The percentage of plate appearances resulting in a walk.
  • K Rate
    The percentage of plate appearances resulting in a strikeout.
  • BABIP
    Batting average on balls in play. Measures how many of a batter’s balls in play go for hits.
  • ISO
    Isolated Power. Slugging percentage minus batting average. A computation used to measure a batter's raw power.
  • AVG
    Batting average. Hits divided by at bats.
  • OBP
    On Base Percentage. A measure of how often a batters reaches base. Roughly equal to number of times on base divided by plate appearances.
  • SLG
    Slugging Percentage. A measure of the batting productivity of a hitter. It is calculated as total bases divided by at bats.
  • OPS
    On base plus slugging. THe sum of a batter's on-base percentage and slugging percentage.
  • wOBA
    Weighted on-base average. Measures a player's overall offensive contributions per plate appearance. wOBA combines all the different aspects of hitting into one metric, weighting each of them in proportion to their actual run value.
  • Exit Velocity
    The speed of the baseball as it comes off the bat, immediately after a batter makes contact.
  • Hard Hit Rate
    A measure of contact quality from Sports Info Solutions. This stat explains what percentage of batted balls were hit hard vs. medium or soft.
  • Barrels/PA
    The percentage of plate appearances where a batter had a batted ball classified as a Barrel. A Barrel is a batted ball with similar exit velocity and launch angle to past ones that led to a minimum .500 batting average and 1.500 slugging percentage.
  • Expected BA
    Expected Batting Average.
  • Expected SLG
    Expected Slugging Percentage.
  • Sprint Speed
    The speed of a runner from home to first, in feet per second.
  • Ground Ball %
    The percentage of balls put in play that are on the ground.
  • Line Drive %
    The percentage of balls put in play that are line drives.
  • Fly Ball %
    The percentage of balls put in play that are fly balls.
BB/K
0.29
 
BB Rate
7.2%
 
K Rate
24.7%
 
BABIP
.270
 
ISO
.156
 
AVG
.222
 
OBP
.278
 
SLG
.378
 
OPS
.656
 
wOBA
.290
 
Exit Velocity
90.3 mph
 
Hard Hit Rate
33.3%
 
Barrels/PA
8.2%
 
Expected BA
.219
 
Expected SLG
.400
 
Sprint Speed
23.4 ft/sec
 
Ground Ball %
43.9%
 
Line Drive %
13.6%
 
Fly Ball %
42.4%
 
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Set to lose work to Wong
CBoston Red Sox
May 4, 2025
Narvaez will start at catcher and bat eighth in Sunday's game against the Twins.
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Continues to fill in serviceably
CBoston Red Sox
April 30, 2025
Narvaez went 1-for-4 with a two-run home run in Wednesday's extra-inning loss to Toronto.
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Idle for Game 1
CBoston Red Sox
April 26, 2025
Narvaez isn't in the lineup for the first game of Saturday's doubleheader against Cleveland, Christopher Smith of MassLive.com reports.
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Homers in loss
CBoston Red Sox
April 25, 2025
Narvaez went 1-for-3 with a solo home run in Thursday's 4-3 loss to the Mariners.
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Resting Wednesday
CBoston Red Sox
April 23, 2025
Narvaez is out of the lineup for Wednesday's game against the Mariners.
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Slated for bigger role
CBoston Red Sox
April 8, 2025
Narvaez is expected to handle a bigger role at catcher following the finger injury sustained by Connor Wong, Anthony Franco of MLB Trade Rumors speculates.
ANALYSIS
The Red Sox placed Wong on the 10-day injured list after he broke his left pinkie finger on a catcher's interference during Monday's loss to the Blue Jays, and Narvaez is now slated to experience an uptick in his playing time while Wong is out. Narvaez hit .254/.370/.412 with 11 homers over 96 Triple-A contests in 2024, and he's posted a slash line of .333/.455/.500 with six hits in 18 at-bats ahead of Tuesday's slate.
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