{"id":316465,"date":"2026-08-08T00:30:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/316465\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T00:30:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:30:23","slug":"yankees-sign-mitch-garver-after-whiffing-on-catchers-at-trade-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/316465\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees sign Mitch Garver after whiffing on catchers at trade deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"

After whiffing on a catcher at the trade deadline, the Yankees are taking a flier on a veteran backstop.<\/p>\n

The club has signed Mitch Garver to a minor league deal, a source confirmed to The Post on Friday, adding a right-handed hitting option at Triple-A.<\/p>\n

The 35-year-old Garver, who was released by the Mariners earlier this week in the midst of a rough season, previously worked with Yankees director of catching Tanner Swanson when both were in the Twins organization.<\/p>\n

Of course, the Yankees would have loved to land another righty-hitting catcher from the Twins, Ryan Jeffers, except Minnesota did not end up selling at the deadline.<\/p>\n

The Red Sox then out-bid the Yankees for Orioles All-Star<\/a> catcher Adley Rutschman while the Rays landed lefty-hitting catcher Liam Hicks<\/a> from the Marlins, as Monday\u2019s deadline passed without GM Brian Cashman adding a backstop at all, leaving him with Austin Wells and Ali S\u00e1nchez on the big league roster and J.C. Escarra and another recently signed veteran, Christian Bethancourt, at Triple-A Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre.<\/p>\n

It remains to be seen what Garver has left in the tank, after batting .175 with a .596 OPS in 50 games with the Mariners this season, though he was slightly better against lefties, batting .222 with a .659 OPS. <\/p>\n

\"SeattleThe Yankees signed Mitch Garver. Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/p>\n

He only ranked in the 17th percentile in framing, which the Yankees still put a premium on in the ABS era.<\/p>\n

Wells, meanwhile, has spent most of the season as one of the worst hitters in the big leagues, though he has been the Yankees\u2019 most productive player in recent weeks, posting a .931 OPS since July 9. <\/p>\n

They also believe he has played a key role in the Yankees leading the majors in ERA, which is why he continued to catch through his offensive struggles.<\/p>\n

S\u00e1nchez\u2019s spot may be more vulnerable, as the right-handed hitter entered Friday with a .657 OPS (but .838 in a small sample size against lefties).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After whiffing on a catcher at the trade deadline, the Yankees are taking a flier on a veteran…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72879,20,94970,9,11,10,321,319],"class_list":["post-316465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-mitch-garver","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-trade-deadline","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}