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CATCHER
TRAVIS D’ARNAUD

2024 SEASON
◆ Appeared in 99 games in 12th career Major League season and fifth with Atlanta...Batted .238 (73/307) with
40 runs scored, 16 doubles, 15 home runs, 48 RBI, and a .739 OPS.
◆ His 15 home runs and 48 RBI each ranked fifth-most among National League catchers.
◆ Hit .254 (17/67) with a .922 OPS in 67 at-bats against LHP in 2024...d’Arnaud’s .922 OPS vs. LHP ranked fourth
among MLB catchers.
◆ Placed on paternity list from Sept. 9-12.
MAJOR LEAGUE SUMMARY
2023
◆ Completed fourth season with Atlanta...Slashed .225/.288/.397 in 74 games...Hit 11 home runs and 13
doubles, while recording 39 RBI and 31 runs.
◆ Made his 10th career Opening Day roster (fourth with Atlanta).
◆ Hit his 100th career home run (two-run), June 16 vs. Colorado off RHP Dinelson Lamet...Per Statcast, the
blast traveled 474 feet...Stands as d’Arnaud’s longest home run since tracking began in 2015.
◆ Celebrated 10 years of MLB service time on August 4...One of 10 players selected in the 2007 First-Year
player draft to exceed 10 years of MLB service time.
D'ARNAUD
2022
◆ Named to first career All-Star team in 10th Major League season and third with Atlanta...Batted .268
(106/396) and set career highs in runs (61), hits (106), doubles (25), home runs (18), and total bases (187).
◆ On June 2 at Colorado set a new career high with six RBI...Finished the day 3-for-5 with a pair of home runs...Was first
Atlanta player with at least six RBI since Dansby Swanson on August 14, 2021 at Washington...Became first Braves
catcher with two home runs and six RBI in a game since Javy Lopez did it on June 21, 2003 against Baltimore.
◆ From May 30 through the rest of the regular season, owned the second-best OPS (.840) in MLB by a primary
catcher (min. 200 PA)...Only Philadelphia’s J.T. Realmuto was better (.875).
2021
◆ Batted .220 (46/209) with 21 extra-base hits and a .671 OPS across 60 games in second season with Atlanta
(ninth overall).
◆ Missed 86 games on the injured list with a left thumb sprain from May 2 to Aug. 11.
◆ Placed on paternity list from Aug. 21-24.
◆ In his first six games after returning from the injured list, hit .292 (7-for-24) with four extra-base hits (two
home runs), six RBI, four runs scored and five walks.
◆ Won 2021 World Series with Atlanta...Was the starting backstop for each of Atlanta’s games during the 2021
playoff run...Batted .236/.312/.364 with two home runs and three RBI.
2020
◆ First season in Atlanta, eighth of career...Hit .321 (53/165) with a .919 OPS in 44 games during impacted
season...Fell two plate appearances shy of posting the second-highest batting average for a qualified catcher
in franchise history (Ernie Lombardi; .330 in 1942).... Recorded hits in 33 of 39 starts.
◆ Led all primary catchers (min. 175 plate appearances) in batting average (.321), on-base percentage (.386).
slugging percentage (.533). RBI (34) and wRC+ (145).
◆ Reached base safely in his final 16 games, a career-long streak...Only the Dodgers’ Justin Turner ended the campaign
with a longer on-base stretch...d’Arnaud had a .417 on-base percentage in that span dating back to Sept. 9.
◆ Awarded 2020 National League Silver Slugger at catcher, the fifth Atlanta backstop to win the award (ninth occurence).
2019
◆ Appeared with three teams in 2019, and compiled a .251 (88/351) average and .745 OPS across 103 games played.
◆ Began seventh Major League season in New York (N.L.) and played in 10 games for Mets before being
designated for assignment on April 28.
◆ Signed by Dodgers on May 5 and appeared in one game as a pinch hitter on May 9...Acquired by Tampa Bay for
cash considerations on May 10...Ended Dodgers career with an 0-for-1 line without taking the field on defense.
◆ Hit all 16 of his home runs for Rays and set a new franchise record for catchers... Drove in 67 runs in Tampa Bay,
which led MLB catchers from the time of his Rays debut through the end of the season.
◆ Eight of his homers and 25 of his RBI came in July, Rays’ franchise records for a catcher in a calendar month.
◆ Became the first player in Rays franchise history to hit three home runs in a road game on July 15 at NYY...Also
became the first catcher in MLB history to homer three times in a game out of the leadoff spot...His three home runs
drove in all five of Tampa Bay’s runs, marking the first time in franchise history a player recorded five or more RBI
to account for all the team’s offense in a winning effort...Tied a single-game franchise record by totaling 12 bases.

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