Omar Narváez to 10-day IL; Feliciano recalled from ATS

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The Brewers announce...

 

C Omar Narváez placed on the 10-day injured list with a strained left hamstring.

 

C Mario Feliciano recalled from the Alternate Training Site.

[markedman5]

At this rate we will see Mitchell and Turang in 2 or 3 weeks…….

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Hard to believe Mario Feliciano, who has played just 3 games at Double-A, is on the verge of making his major league debut. Feliciano is just 22-years old, a fairly young age for a catcher to make their MLB debut.

 

Feliciano is considered a bat first catcher. Obviously you can’t put too much stock in Spring Training stats (especially just 15 plate appearances), but Feliciano did hold his own offensively this spring in major league camp (Spring Training stats below).

 

[pre]Year Age G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS

2021 22 14 15 14 2 6 2 2 0 5 1 2 .429 .467 .857 1.324[/pre]

[Thurston Fluff]

Remember back in the day when there were six catchers on the 40 man roster? Those were the days.

[Pugger]

We might have to get Rock out of the booth.

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Feliciano age is currently 22.162 (years & days).

 

Below are the ages at which some other prominent catchers made their debuts (just randomly selected):

 

Willson Contreras - 24.035

 

Jonathan Lucroy - 23.342

 

Joey Bart - 23.249

 

Buster Posey - 22.168

 

J.T. Realmuto - 23.079

 

Salvador Perez - 21.092

 

Yasmani Grandal - 23.207

 

Wilson Ramos - 22.265

 

So Feliciano would be making his debut younger than everyone on that list except for Salvador Perez.

 

I don’t know what the Brewers record for youngest catcher is, but B.J. Surhoff was 22.247 and Dave Nilsson was 22.156 when they made their debuts.

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Mario Feliciano scouting report via MLB.com:

 

The Brewers have not hit big drafting and developing catchers. The last home-grown catcher to represent them at an All-Star Game was Jonathan Lucroy in 2014 and ‘16. Before that, it was Dave Nilsson in 1999, but Nilsson was already an established pro in Australia before he signed with the Brewers. But now the Brewers have a relatively deep crop of backstops led by Feliciano, the No. 75 overall pick in the 2016 Draft. After nagging injuries ruined his 2018, including a shoulder flare-up in the Arizona Fall League that required arthroscopic surgery in the offseason, Feliciano got back on track during a breakout 2019 at the advanced Class A level; he was Carolina League MVP after leading the circuit in home runs (19), RBIs (81), slugging (.477) and total bases (210) at age 20, and he was added to the 40-man roster this past offseason.

 

Feliciano’s strength is his bat. His clean and compact right-handed swing yields consistently hard contact as well as above-average game power that plays from the left-center gap to the right-field line. There is great potential for more if Feliciano can bring down his 28.8 percent strikeout rate from 2019 and cut down one of the Minors’ highest swinging-strike rates (19.7 percent).

 

Defensively, Feliciano has enough tools to be a catcher long-term, particularly his arm. He’ll be a bat-first guy, but should be able to stick behind the plate at the highest level.

[RollieTime]

Unfortunate for Narvaez, but exciting for Feliciano! He’s got a bright future with the Brewers. Hopefully he will contribute in his first taste at the big league level.

[AdvantageSchneider]

With all these injury threads it may be easier to just start a thread announcing the guys that aren't hurt.

[markedman5]

About 2 weeks estimated down time for Narvaez