LAS VEGAS — The Red Sox are comfortable with Connor Wong being their backup catcher behind starter Carlos Narváez in 2026 despite his struggles this past season.

The 29-year-old batted just .190 with a .262 on-base percentage, .238 slugging percentage, .500 OPS, no homers, eight doubles, seven RBIs and 16 runs in 63 games (188 plate appearances).

“We felt like he was kind of on the cusp of breaking out (after 2024),” chief baseball officer Craig Breslow said at the GM Meetings here at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas . “And I think there’s a number of things that we could point to in ’25 that could explain why the performance wasn’t what we had anticipated. But still believe in the player that he is.”

Wong underwent a right hand carpal boss excision soon after the Red Sox were elimina

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