{"id":692871,"date":"2026-05-25T05:14:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T05:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/692871\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T05:14:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T05:14:18","slug":"orioles-designate-albert-suarez-for-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/692871\/","title":{"rendered":"Orioles Designate Albert Suarez For Assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Orioles announced that right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/suareal01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-05-24_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Albert Suarez<\/a> has been designated for assignment.\u00a0 Prior to today\u2019s doubleheader with the Tigers, Baltimore activated left-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/w\/wolfrgr01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-05-24_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Grant Wolfram<\/a> from the 15-day IL to use him as the 27th man, and Wolfram will now stay on the 26-man roster in Suarez\u2019s place.<\/p>\n<p>These transactions are becoming routine for Suarez, who has now been DFA\u2019ed three times by the Orioles in under a month.\u00a0 The first designation saw Suarez clear waivers and then elect free agency, as a previous outright on his resume allowed him to decline the Orioles\u2019 outright assignment to Triple-A Norfolk.\u00a0 However, Suarez quickly re-signed with the O\u2019s on a minor league contract, then was selected back to the active roster, and DFA\u2019ed and outrighted again within the span of five days.<\/p>\n<p>This time, Suarez chose to just accept the outright assignment, and spent a couple of weeks in Norfolk before the Orioles selected his contract again last Tuesday.\u00a0 Unless Suarez is claimed off waivers, it seems probable that Suarez will end up staying with the O\u2019s in some fashion, either via accepting the outright assignment or another free agent trip that results in another fresh minor league deal.<\/p>\n<p>Suarez is out of minor league options, so the O\u2019s have to designate him and expose him to the waiver wire whenever the club wants to shift him off the active roster.\u00a0 Suarez has some leverage in this back-and-forth situation given his ability to reject outright assignments, but it could be that he is content to stick it out in a familiar environment with the knowledge that he\u2019ll probably get another look in the majors pretty soon.<\/p>\n<p>Amidst all this roster shuffling, Suarez has a 2.75 ERA over 19 2\/3 big league innings this season, including four shutout frames in Game 2 of today\u2019s doubleheader (a 4-1 Orioles loss).\u00a0 Suarez\u2019s ability to eat innings has made the former swingman and starter into a useful long man for Baltimore, though he has barely more strikeouts (10) than walks (nine) and he benefited greatly from a minuscule .186 BABIP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Orioles announced that right-hander Albert Suarez has been designated for assignment.\u00a0 Prior to today\u2019s doubleheader with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[171706,64,63,338082,591,85],"class_list":["post-692871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-albert-suarez","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-grant-wolfram","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}