Tennessee’s Nashville According to numerous reports, catcher Victor Caratini and the Houston Astros reached an agreement on Tuesday for a two-year, $12 million contract.
It is said that Caratini is eligible for further performance bonuses.
As William Contreras’ backup this season, the 30-year-old Caratini, who has played for the Milwaukee Brewers for the previous two seasons, hit.259 with seven home runs and 25 RBIs in 62 games.
After seven major league seasons with the Chicago Cubs (2017–20), San Diego (2021), and Milwaukee (2022–23), Aratini has a career batting average of.236 with 38 home runs and 171 RBIs.
With Yainer Díaz expected to start for the Astros in his place next season, the deal with Caratini may prevent Houston from re-signing Martín Maldonado. Since 2019, the 37-year-old has played for the Astros.
“I’ve been talking to Yainer once a week,” new manager Joe Espada said Monday. “We’re going to do some things in January leading into spring training to prep him for spring training. I don’t want us to get to spring training and start from scratch.
“So this is going to be starting right now having conversations about our staff, how to attack certain lineups, things that we know that we can help him with, receiving, throwing.”
