{"id":303037,"date":"2025-11-24T04:14:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T04:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/303037\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T04:14:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T04:14:05","slug":"mets-interested-in-robert-suarez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/303037\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets Interested In Robert Suarez"},"content":{"rendered":"

While the Mets remain engaged with Edwin Diaz<\/a> about a new contract, the club is keeping its bases covered by also checking in with other major free agent closers.\u00a0 Reports from earlier this week<\/a> cited the Mets as one of the many teams involved in Devin Williams<\/a>\u2019 market, and The Athletic\u2019s Will Sammon<\/a> reports that New York has been in touch \u201cmultiple times recently\u201d with the reps for both Williams and Robert Suarez<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This makes the Mets the first club publicly linked to Suarez this winter, though it is probably safe to assume that most or all of the clubs in on Williams are similarly exploring Suarez\u2019s asking price.\u00a0 MLB Trade Rumors ranked Williams 16th on our list of the offseason\u2019s top 50 free agents<\/a> and projected him for a four-year, $68MM contract, while Suarez ranked 21st and got a three-year, $48MM projection.\u00a0 (Diaz was the top closer in our list, ranked 13th with a projection of four years and $82MM.)<\/p>\n

Diaz and Williams are both entering their age-32 seasons, whereas Suarez is turning 35 in March.\u00a0 The age gap will alone put some limitations on Suarez\u2019s market, even if teams should still be open to giving him a high average annual salary within a shorter-term contract.\u00a0 Raisel Iglesias<\/a> (who turns 36 in January) took a one-year, $16MM deal to return to the Braves, though Iglesias\u2019 fairly quick departure from the market could indicate that he simply preferred to return to Atlanta over more fully waiting around to see if he could land at least one more guaranteed year.<\/p>\n

Indeed, Suarez\u2019s age might even be something of a selling point in regards to how teams are approaching the bullpen market.\u00a0 Diaz is reportedly looking<\/a> for a contract akin to his previous five-year, $102MM deal with New York, and while the Amazins have interest in bringing Diaz back, Sammon writes that the team would prefer a shorter-term pact.\u00a0 If Suarez\u2019s age might naturally leave him looking at something like a three-year contract as a ceiling, that might work out just fine for the Mets or other teams who are wary about lengthy commitments to relief pitchers.<\/p>\n

Suarez felt comfortable enough about his chances in free agency that he chose to opt out of the final two years (and $16MM) on his contract with the Padres.\u00a0 There\u2019s certainly no indication that Suarez is slowing down, either in the figurative or literal sense.\u00a0 Suarez\u2019s 98.6mph fastball is still among the highest velocities in the game, and he posted a 2.97 ERA, 27.9% strikeout rate, and a 5.9% walk rate over 69 2\/3 innings in 2025.\u00a0 Over his two seasons as San Diego\u2019s closer, Suarez has closed out 76 of 87 chances and twice been named to the NL All-Star team.\u00a0 He has also carried his strong performance into October, with a 2.45 ERA over 14 2\/3 career postseason innings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the Mets remain engaged with Edwin Diaz about a new contract, the club is keeping its bases…\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":{"0":"post-303037","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-robert-suarez","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303037","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=303037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303037\/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=303037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}