{"id":517659,"date":"2026-03-06T07:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T07:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/517659\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T07:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T07:15:07","slug":"orioles-made-approximate-125mm-offer-to-ranger-suarez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/517659\/","title":{"rendered":"Orioles Made Approximate $125MM Offer To Ranger Su\u00e1rez"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Orioles were among the teams most frequently tied to Ranger Su\u00e1rez<\/a>\u00a0before the southpaw signed a five-year deal with the Red Sox. He commanded a $130MM guarantee to slot behind Garrett Crochet<\/a> in the Boston rotation.<\/p>\n

Baltimore was seemingly in a similar range. Jon Heyman of The New York Post<\/a> reports that the Orioles are believed to have made an offer around $125MM. It seems likely that would also have been a five-year proposal at approximately $25MM annually.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an offseason footnote at this point. Su\u00e1rez got a slightly better deal to join an AL East competitor. The Orioles wound up turning to\u00a0Chris Bassitt<\/a> on a one-year, $18.5MM deal to build out the rotation. Bassitt should be a solid mid-rotation presence, while the O\u2019s took a higher variance swing on the trade market. They sent four prospects and a draft pick to the Rays for\u00a0Shane Baz<\/a> in December.<\/p>\n

The Post report doesn\u2019t specify when the Orioles made their offer to Su\u00e1rez. He didn\u2019t sign with Boston until a month after the Baz trade. The O\u2019s pursuit of high-end starting pitching extended beyond the Baz trade, so it wouldn\u2019t be a surprise if their offer came at a similar time as the Red Sox\u2019s one that got the deal done. Baltimore signed Bassitt three weeks later.<\/p>\n

Until last offseason, the Orioles had not signed any players to a nine-figure deal under president of baseball operations Mike Elias. They weren\u2019t entirely averse to such commitments. They reportedly offered<\/a> Corbin Burnes<\/a> four years and $180MM before he signed with the Diamondbacks in 2025.<\/p>\n

They hadn\u2019t actually signed any free agents for even $50MM+ until their Winter Meetings splash to add Pete Alonso<\/a> for five years and $155MM. They were evidently willing to add another significant deal to the books. Su\u00e1rez would also have been the O\u2019s first free agent signee under Elias who had rejected a qualifying offer (thereby costing the signing team a draft choice).<\/p>\n

Baltimore will open the season with a front five of\u00a0Trevor Rogers<\/a>,\u00a0Kyle Bradish<\/a>, Baz, Bassitt and\u00a0Zach Eflin<\/a>. They\u2019ll probably go with a six-man rotation to also keep Dean Kremer<\/a> in the mix as long as everyone gets through camp healthy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Orioles were among the teams most frequently tied to Ranger Su\u00e1rez\u00a0before the southpaw signed a five-year deal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,1523,82],"class_list":["post-517659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-ranger-suarez","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517659","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=517659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}