{"id":360544,"date":"2025-12-21T22:47:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T22:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/360544\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T22:47:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T22:47:04","slug":"mariners-remain-interested-in-re-signing-eugenio-suarez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/360544\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariners Remain Interested In Re-Signing Eugenio Suarez"},"content":{"rendered":"

Of the Mariners\u2019 three primary position-player free agents, Josh Naylor<\/a> returned to the team on a five-year, $92.5MM contract<\/a>, and Jorge Polanco<\/a> headed to the Mets on a two-year, $40MM deal<\/a>.\u00a0 This leaves Eugenio Suarez<\/a> on the open market, and in an interview with MLB Network Radio on SiriusXM<\/a>, Mariners general manager Justin Hollander said there\u2019s \u201ccertainly a chance\u201d Suarez could join Naylor for another stint in the Pacific Northwest.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe love Geno.\u00a0 Geno brings a ton not just on the field, the things that people see\u2026but off the field,\u201d Hollander said.\u00a0 \u201cHis steady presence, great makeup, [and] what he brings to a clubhouse every day, it\u2019s really hard to replicate.\u00a0 So we\u2019ve maintained contact with Geno\u2019s reps all winter long.\u201d<\/p>\n

Re-signing Naylor was known to be Seattle\u2019s clear priority as the offseason began, with reports indicating<\/a> that Polanco and Suarez (in that order) were viewed were the next items on the checklist.\u00a0 The fact that Naylor signed in mid-November allowed the M\u2019s some extra flexibility in accessing the rest of the market, and talks with Polanco reportedly saw the Mariners make a two-year offer at least in the range of the Mets\u2019 $40MM figure.<\/p>\n

It isn\u2019t known if the Mariners made any kind of concrete offer to Suarez to perhaps see which of Suarez or Polanco accepted first, or if the M\u2019s held off on diving too deeply into talks with Suarez until Polanco\u2019s fate was decided.\u00a0 Even with Polanco now off the market, Seattle has also been linked<\/a> to such prominent trade targets as Brendan Donovan<\/a> and Ketel Marte<\/a>, so it could be that any substantive negotiations with Suarez are being held off until one or both of these infielders are dealt, or if talks with the Cardinals or Diamondbacks fall apart.<\/p>\n

If Suarez did return to the Mariners, he would likely be used more as a DH than as a regular third baseman.\u00a0 Depending on the defensive metric of your choice, Suarez has been generally an average to below-average third baseman for several years now, and both Defensive Runs Saved (-6) and Outs Above Average (-3) weren\u2019t impressed by his glovework in 2025.\u00a0 The M\u2019s have enough good internal third base options that the team has been looking mostly at second base help<\/a>, and Suarez might be pretty much the only free agent third baseman on Seattle\u2019s radar due to his past history with the franchise.<\/p>\n

The Cubs and Red Sox have also been linked to Suarez\u2019s market this winter, but again, it isn\u2019t known if either of these teams or any other suitors have put a contract on the table for the 34-year-old slugger.\u00a0 It has been a fairly cool market for a player coming off a 49-homer season, yet Suarez\u2019s age, high strikeout rates, and subpar defense are red flags for any team considering a long-term commitment.\u00a0 It also didn\u2019t help that Suarez\u2019s production dipped heavily after he was dealt from the Diamondbacks to the Mariners at the trade deadline.<\/p>\n

MLB Trade Rumors still ranked Suarez 20th on our list of the winter\u2019s top 50 free agents<\/a>, and projected him to land a three-year, $63MM deal.\u00a0 That contract still seems possible since there\u2019s still plenty of time left in the offseason, and the market undoubtedly has plenty of twists and turns as free agents come off the board and other players change teams on the trade market.\u00a0 While a hometown discount may or may not be feasible, it is fair to guess that Suarez might favor the Mariners over other teams, due to his familiarity with the clubhouse and the likelihood that Seattle will again be postseason contenders in 2026 and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Of the Mariners\u2019 three primary position-player free agents, Josh Naylor returned to the team on a five-year, $92.5MM…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,1514,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-360544","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-eugenio-suarez","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360544","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=360544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}