Mitch Garver sold his Bellevue home for more than $3 million in late May, ending a brief stay in the Lake Hills property he bought only months earlier. The Mariners catcher had paid nearly $3.1 million for the house in February 2024.
The 4,300-square-foot home at 1028 163rd Avenue S.E. sits on a 7,502-square-foot lot and was built in 2023. It has five bedrooms and four bathrooms, along with a two-story living room and a chef’s kitchen. For Garver, the sale came after a season of movement on and off the field, and it leaves open the exact price he received in the transaction.
That gap matters because the timing is unusual even by high-end suburban standards. Garver signed a two-year, $24 million deal with the Mariners before he bought the home, then later re-signed as a free agent on a one-year minor league deal. He won the battle for the backup catcher role in spring training, giving him a place on a roster that has already shifted around him.
Garver’s path to Seattle has also made him a familiar name in a clubhouse that has leaned on depth. Drafted by the Minnesota Twins in the ninth round of the 2013 MLB Draft, he spent five seasons in Minnesota, then had a two-year stint with the Texas Rangers before entering his third season with the Mariners. His latest real-estate move lands while Seattle is still waiting on Cal Raleigh, who has been dealing with a right oblique strain since mid-May.
Raleigh made his first rehab start on Sunday with the Everett AquaSox, a sign that Seattle may be getting its regular catcher back soon. That makes Garver’s home sale a tidy snapshot of a player in transition: he moved into a new Bellevue house, kept it through a short stretch with the Mariners, and sold it before the team’s catching picture fully settled.
