Reds' Eugenio Suarez signing has turned out to be a problem with painful decline
Cincinnati isn't getting what it wanted out of Suarez so far.
Reds' Eugenio Suarez signing has turned out to be a problem with painful decline originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . Eugenio Suarez's stats so far this season suggest that he's just on the verge of doing what the Cincinnati Reds signed him to do.
He's got a . 692 OPS with three home runs, which feels like if it trends up just a bit, that's the power the Reds would've been hoping for. But the underlying numbers suggest that things aren't going to get better for Suarez.
Of every qualified hitter in baseball, no one has had a steeper decline in hard-hit rate from last season to this one. MORE: This might be the weirdest way to get an inside-the-park HR Suarez had a 47. 6% hard-hit percentage in 2025.
So far this season through April 21, it's 21. 8%. That's a 5.