{"id":22474,"date":"2025-07-25T06:52:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T06:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/22474\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T06:52:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T06:52:05","slug":"should-the-padres-shop-robert-suarez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/22474\/","title":{"rendered":"Should The Padres Shop Robert Suarez?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite being deadline buyers, the Padres are hearing teams out<\/a> on\u00a0Dylan Cease<\/a>. He\u2019s an impending free agent who could theoretically allow them to acquire young talent they could flip for a more controllable starting pitcher or help elsewhere on the roster.<\/p>\n

There\u2019d be a similar logic for San Diego in entertaining offers on All-Star closer\u00a0Robert Suarez<\/a>. The 34-year-old righty is expected to opt out of the remaining two years and $16MM on his contract. He\u2019s playing on a $10MM salary this year, around $3.2MM of which will be owed from the deadline through the end of the season. While that\u2019s a bargain rate for a very good reliever, it\u2019s not an insignificant amount for a team that had very little short-term payroll room all offseason.<\/p>\n

San Diego reportedly fielded interest in Suarez throughout the offseason. They obviously didn\u2019t find an offer to their liking. That was also the case for Cease but hasn\u2019t stopped them from taking calls this summer. ESPN\u2019s Jeff Passan<\/a> suggested on Wednesday that the Padres could make Suarez available as well.<\/p>\n

The Padres have a trio of high-end setup options in\u00a0Jeremiah Estrada<\/a>,\u00a0Jason Adam<\/a> and\u00a0Adrian Morejon<\/a>. Rookie right-hander\u00a0David Morgan<\/a> has a 2.25 ERA while striking out a quarter of opponents in his first 24 big league innings. Morgan doesn\u2019t have any high-leverage experience, but he regularly hits 98 MPH with his fastball and has a plus curveball. He certainly has late-inning caliber stuff. If they were to trade Suarez, the Padres could give Morgan some more meaningful assignments while using Estrada or Adam in the ninth inning.<\/p>\n

A trade would only make sense if the Padres get big league talent in return (either directly or by flipping some of the prospects to a third team). They need to add a left fielder and could be in the catching market. The rotation depth is questionable, especially with Yu Darvish<\/a> struggling in his first four starts off the injured list. Their farm system isn\u2019t strong beyond their top two prospects,\u00a0Leo De Vries<\/a> and\u00a0Ethan Salas<\/a>, whom they\u2019re unlikely to move. Trading off the big league roster in some capacity seems likely \u2014 even though the conventional play would be to deal rookies like Morgan or starter Ryan Bergert<\/a> for more established veterans.<\/p>\n

Suarez leads MLB with 29 saves. He tallied 36 saves last season and carries a 3.46 ERA across 41 2\/3 innings. Almost all of the damage has been confined to a pair of five-run disasters. Outside of those two appearances, he has allowed seven combined runs. 36 of his 44 appearances have been scoreless. Suarez has fanned nearly 27% of batters faced against a 7.3% walk rate. His opt-out clause could give some teams pause \u2014 the remaining $16MM in guarantees are pure downside for an acquiring club if he gets injured late in the season \u2014 but he\u2019s affordable and effective enough that the Padres should find plenty of interest if they seriously considered making him available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite being deadline buyers, the Padres are hearing teams out on\u00a0Dylan Cease. He\u2019s an impending free agent who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,473,82],"class_list":["post-22474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-robert-suarez","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}