{"id":313118,"date":"2025-11-25T17:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T17:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/313118\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T17:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T17:04:07","slug":"pirates-linked-to-all-star-third-baseman-in-mlb-free-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/313118\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates Linked To All-Star Third Baseman In MLB Free Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Pirates have already been <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnetpittsburgh.com\/2025\/11\/21\/mlb-insider-lists-pirates-as-possible-landing-spot-for-pete-alonso\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">linked to<\/a> multiple star free agent first basemen <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnetpittsburgh.com\/2025\/11\/24\/pirates-linked-to-versatile-all-star-free-agent\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">such as<\/a> Pete Alonso and Ryan O\u2019Hearn.<\/p>\n<p>This is in addition to <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnetpittsburgh.com\/2025\/11\/18\/pirates-reportedly-made-strong-push-to-sign-all-star-slugger\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the rumors<\/a> surrounding slugging first baseman Josh Naylor, who eventually re-signed with the Seattle Mariners.<\/p>\n<p>MLB senior writer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6830727\/2025\/11\/25\/mlb-black-friday-free-agent-deals\/?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=bluesky\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andy McCullough of The Athletic<\/a> mentioned another big-time slugger and 2025 All-Star as an option for Pirates owner Bob Nutting on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>McCullough\u2019s suggestion is located across the diamond from where Alonso, Naylor and O\u2019Hearn typically line up: third baseman Eugenio Suarez.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut if owner Bob Nutting is serious about authorizing some expenditures to not waste the early prime of Paul Skenes, there are plenty of players available to aid an offense that ranked last in home runs and slugging percentage in 2025,\u201d the insider said. \u201cNo Pirate hit more than 20 homers last season. Su\u00e1rez matched a career-best mark with 49 dingers last season and has averaged 32 per year since 2021.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Suarez has been one of the biggest feast or famine sluggers in MLB over the last decade.<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old Venezuelan is only a career .246 hitter, finished the 2021 campaign below the Mendoza line and has led the league in strikeouts three times. Suarez racked up 214 strikeouts in 2023, which is eighth-most all-time.<\/p>\n<p>Suarez has always been a consistent source of power, however, recording 325 career regular season home runs in 1,630 games while finishing six different seasons with at least 30 long balls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>He made his second All-Star team in 2025 and finished the year by matching his career high in home runs (49) and setting a new high mark in RBIs (118).<\/p>\n<p>More MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnetpittsburgh.com\/2025\/11\/25\/new-report-pours-cold-water-on-pirates-josh-naylor-rumors\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Report Pours Cold Water On Pirates-Josh Naylor Rumors<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Pirates have already been linked to multiple star free agent first basemen such as Pete Alonso&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[161363,363,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-313118","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-bob-nutting","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}