New York Mets promote former Toronto Blue Jays catcher to coaching position

As for the three promotions, they all get bumped from the minors to the majors. Arencibia, 39, is the biggest name of the bunch.

Arencibia was a first-round draft pick by the Jays in the 2004 draft, number 21 overall.

He quickly became our top prospect and hit #43 on Baseball America's top 100 prospects list before the 2009 season.

Then, he came up to the Jays and played his first MLB game on August 7th, 2010, and it couldn't have gone better.

In one of the greatest debut's in franchise history Arencibia went 4 for 5, with 2 home runs and a double. We thought we had our catcher for the next ten years.

It didn't work out that way. He had more trouble with the bat than we thought he would, and he took those troubles with him behind the plate.

JP played four seasons with the Jays. He hit .212/.258/.408 in 380 games.

In December of 2013 Arencibia was non-tendered by the Blue Jays making him a free agent.

The move came hours after Toronto signed free agent catcher Dioner Navarro to a two-year deal worth US$8 million.

Arencibia had a .194 batting that season with 21 home runs and 55 RBIs. The 27-year-old struck out 148 times in 2013, 15th most in Major League Baseball.

Navarro hit .300 with a career-high 13 home runs in 89 games for the Chicago Cubs that season. He also had 34 runs batted in.

Arencibia had a batting average of .212 with 275 hits, 64 home runs, 193 RBIs, and 140 runs scored in 380 games for the Blue Jays in his career across four seasons from 2010-2013.

He spent 2014 with the Texas Rangers and 2015 with the Tampa Bay Rays, where his MLB career would conclude before officially retiring from pro baseball in 2017.

Arencibia has worked a variety of different media jobs, including a tenure as a podcaster with Yahoo! Sports Canada and a role as pre- and postgame analyst for Marlins broadcasts on Fox Sports Florida, both of which began in 2019.

Arencibia's podcast lasted one season with Yahoo!, while he was on Marlins broadcasts throughout the last four years.

Arencibia returned to baseball in 2023 when the New York Mets hired him as a bench coach with the Triple-A Syracuse Mets.

After three seasons with as bench coach in Triple-A Syracuse, the Mets promoted him to catching coach in the big leagues.