Carlos Nárvaez will undergo knee surgery this week, but the Red Sox expect him to be ready for spring training.

Chief baseball officer Craig Breslow made the announcement on Monday, during the club’s end-of-year press conference.

“Narvi is going to have his meniscus cleaned up,” Breslow said. “This should be a pretty straightforward procedure, and (we) don’t anticipate any issues.”

“There were a couple times during the course of the season where it flared up,” Breslow added. “He deserves a ton of credit for his willingness to play through this, you know, potentially even at a time when others would have maybe bowed out.”

The Red Sox acquired the rookie catcher from the New York Yankees last December. After an early-season injury to Connor Wong, Narváez stepped into the everyday catchin

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