After declining his $9M club option for the 2020 campaign, opting instead for a $1M buyout, the defending World Series champion Washington Nationals have reportedly signed 32-year-old catcher Yan Gomes to a 2-year/$10M contract.
The deal will bring the veteran backstop back as half of the catching tandem the Nats used in 2019 with Kurt Suzuki.
Gomes put up a .223/.316/.389 line, 16 doubles, and 12 home runs in his 97 games and 358 plate appearances in D.C. in 2019, in a 0.8 fWAR campaign (down from 2.4 fWAR in 2018), in which he and Suzuki handled 160 of 162 regular season games.