{"id":44220,"date":"2025-08-04T09:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T09:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/44220\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T09:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T09:07:10","slug":"astros-release-omar-narvaez-mlb-trade-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/44220\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros Release Omar Narvaez – MLB Trade Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Astros released catcher Omar Narvaez<\/a> from his minor league contract, KPRC2\u2019s Ari Alexander<\/a> reports.\u00a0 Narvaez spent a little under two months with Triple-A Sugar Land, and he hit .258\/.402\/.333 over 117 plate appearances with the Astros\u2019 top affiliate.<\/p>\n

Houston carried Yainer Diaz<\/a>, Victor Caratini<\/a>, and Cesar Salazar<\/a> on the 26-man roster for about two and a half months, and Narvaez was added to the organization during this period.\u00a0 Salazar was optioned back to Triple-A after the All-Star break, however, and with some depth added back to the minor league ranks, Narvaez may have become expendable in the Astros\u2019 view.<\/p>\n

Narvaez has appeared in each of the last 10 Major League seasons, and his 2025 resume consists of four games with the White Sox earlier this season before he was released in May.\u00a0 A very solid hitter during his prime years, Narvaez has managed only a .201\/.278\/.286 slash line in 521 big league plate appearances since the start of the 2022 season, and he has been limited to minor league deal since the Mets released him from his two-year, $15MM contract partway through the 2024 campaign.<\/p>\n

As an experienced backstop with a respected reputation as a defender, Narvaez figures to land somewhere on a team in need of catching depth.\u00a0 There was no mention of an opt-out clause in Narvaez\u2019s deal, but it could be that if there was no clear path to Narveaz to make the Astros\u2019 roster (barring multiple injuries), the two sides agreed to part ways so the catcher could look to land a job elsewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Astros released catcher Omar Narvaez from his minor league contract, KPRC2\u2019s Ari Alexander reports.\u00a0 Narvaez spent a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,31235,82],"class_list":["post-44220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-omar-narvaez","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}