The Nationals declined Yan Gomes’s $9 million option earlier this month, but bring him back for two seasons at just slightly more then they would have paid for one.
Veteran catcher Yan Gomes has agreed to a two-year, $10 million deal to return to the World Series champion Washington Nationals, a source told ESPN’s Jeff Passan on Wednesday.
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The catching market appears to operate on a different scale than the rest of the free agent market. Gomes averaged 1.6 fWAR and 1.7 rWAR over the last three seasons. So a respectable guess for his WAR over the next two seasons is about three, which should be worth between $25 and $30 million for two seasons. Catchers, however, tend to fail in their early 30s, and that failure rate seems to take a huge hit off their earning power.