In the history of the New York Mets, 101 different players have appeared behind home plate. Just nine have done so in at least six seasons.
Tomás Nido just became the most recent one to do so.
On the surface, his stat line doesn’t look like anything special. His career OPS is well under .600 and his OPS+ is under 55, both of which are among the worst of anyone who has played at least 100 games at catcher since 2017 when Nido debuted.
For Nido though, you can’t just look at his slash line. The value that he brings is buried deeper below the surface … or, you know, on Baseball Savant.
Nido is quite simply one of the best defensive backstops in Major League Baseball, and probably the best the Mets have had in a long time.
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