The Seattle Mariners have landed the most effective energy hitter available on the market at the 2025 MLB trade deadline. Seattle has agreed to a deal to accumulate third baseman Eugenio Suárez from the Arizona Diamondbacks, ESPN reports. First baseman Tyler Locklear and minor-league pitchers Hunter Cranton and Juan Burgos make up the package deal heading again to Arizona, per MLB.com. For Suárez, the deal marks a return to Seattle, the place he spent the 2022 and 2023 seasons.
Suárez, 34, has already clubbed 30-plus dwelling runs for the fourth time within the final 5 years and the fifth time within the final seven years, and one of many two occasions he did not was the 60-game pandemic season in 2020. He is on tempo for properly over 50 homers (36 and counting), albeit with an elevated dwelling run-to-fly ball price that may course appropriate to his profession common down the stretch.
Regardless, Suárez with a career-average dwelling run price is an excellent participant and a big improve at third base for the Mariners. His protection is sufficient nowadays — he is positively a bat-first participant — however he has game-changing energy and has been generally known as a superb clubhouse presence. Suárez has lengthy been praised for being an important teammate who takes younger gamers below his wing.
The D-backs moved Suárez regardless of hanging across the margins of the postseason race as a result of he can be a free agent after the season, and since they could not go up the prospect so as to add younger expertise to the group. The D-backs have already traded away Josh Naylor (additionally to the Mariners), and different leases like Jalen Beeks, Zac Gallen, and Merrill Kelly might transfer on the deadline, perhaps much more gamers than that.
Suárez’s 36 dwelling runs rank fifth in MLB. His new teammate, Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh, leads baseball with 41 dwelling runs. Just one staff in MLB historical past had two 50-homer hitters in the identical season: the 1961 Yankees with Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle. Suárez additionally set the report for probably the most dwelling runs of any participant when he was traded on the deadline.
Most dwelling runs at time of commerce — MLB historical past
Suárez is making $15 million this season, which is the membership possibility 12 months of the seven-year $66 million extension he signed with the Cincinnati Reds means again in March 2018. He started his profession with the Detroit Tigers and has since been traded to the Reds, the Seattle Mariners, after which the D-backs. That is his twelfth MLB season.