{"id":91708,"date":"2026-01-20T15:34:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T15:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/91708\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T15:34:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T15:34:31","slug":"report-pirates-still-in-pursuit-of-third-baseman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/91708\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Pirates still in pursuit of third baseman"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pittsburgh Pirates have had a successful offseason. There\u2019s not too many out there that wouldn\u2019t grade their moves relatively highly. However, there\u2019s more work still to be done, and the Bucs have a glaring need at third base, where the current depth char<\/a>t lists Jared Triolo as the only one currently on the roster. A recent report, however, still has the Pirates in hot pursuit of one of the top third baseman still out there.<\/p>\n

The Athletic\u2019s Ken Rosenthal reported on his podcast<\/a> that the Bucs are still interested in Eugenio Suarez. He hit .228 last season with 49 homers and 118 RBIs while playing with the Seattle Mariners and the Arizona Diamondbacks. Rosenthal had this to say about Pittsburgh\u2019s pursuit:<\/p>\n

\u201dI would certainly expect, and actually know that the Pirates are interested in Eugenio Su\u00e1rez and the problem they\u2019re going to face is the problem they\u2019ve faced with other free agents as well\u2026 If Eugenio Su\u00e1rez has chance to play for a more competitive team, in his opinion, he\u2019s going to choose that team. If Eugenio Su\u00e1rez can go to Boston, if he can return to one of his former teams, Seattle or Arizona, that might be his preference.\u201d<\/p>\n

So despite the Pirates\u2019 interest, it sounds like an overpay might be in order to convince Suarez to come to the Steel City. The Bucs are definitely going to be improved this year, and Suarez could very well the bat that takes them from competitive to real players in the division, but other teams still have more attractive situations. In addition, the Bucs still need one or two more arms for their pitching staff as well as potentially another outfielder, so overpaying for Suarez just might not be in the cards.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, Rosenthal says the Bucs are legitimately interested, and as we head down the home stretch into Spring Training, they may have an outside shot at securing another big bat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Pirates have had a successful offseason. There\u2019s not too many out there that wouldn\u2019t grade their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[21265,73,75,74],"class_list":["post-91708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pirates-rumors","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}