Sources: Lewis Torrance agrees to 2-year, $11.5 deal with Mets

D New York Mets and catcher Lewis Torrance A two-year, $11.5 million contract extension through the 2028 season has been agreed upon, sources told ESPN on Saturday.

The deal includes $2 million in potential incentives, $1 million in each of 2027 and 2028. There is no alternative.

Torrence, who turns 30 on Saturday, is in his ninth big league season and third with the Mets. One of the best defensive catchers in baseball, he has become a reliable backup Francisco AlvarezA former top prospect, and given the starting duties during Alvarez’s extended stint on the injured list the past two years.

The Venezuela native has appeared in 13 games, starting eight, for the last-place Mets this season. He is 6-for-30 with eight home runs in 413 plate appearances with a .467 OPS in 31 plate appearances after slashing .227/.286/.354 over the last two years.

Defensively, he stole four of seven runners in 2026. He has caught 47% of base stealers (34 of 73) since 2024, 11% better than any catcher who has logged at least 500 innings behind the plate. His 11 fielding runs averaged behind the plate in just 641 innings last season ranked sixth in the majors. His 17 home runs tied for seventh since the start of the 2024 season.

Originally signed by the Yankees out of Venezuela in 2012, Torrance made the San Diego Padres’ Opening Day roster in 2017 as a 20-year-old having never played above Single A. Later he Seattle Mariners And Chicago Cubs before the Yankees traded him from their Triple-A roster to the Mets for $100,000 in May 2024.