Mariners looking brilliant for letting Eugenio Suarez leave for Reds
Seattle apparently knew what it was doing.
Mariners looking brilliant for letting Eugenio Suarez leave for Reds originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . The Seattle Mariners had a chance to re-sign Eugenio Suarez in the offseason.
They had just traded for him in July from the Arizona Diamondbacks , and he hit 13 of his 49 home runs on the season once arriving to the Mariners. They didn't bring him back, though. It didn't necessarily seem like they even went after him all that hard.
Suarez ended up signing with the Cincinnati Reds for a single year at $15 million. So far, the Mariners seem to have come out on the smart side of this outcome. Suarez has had, by far, the largest decline in hard hit percentage from 2025 to 2026.
Last season, he hit the ball hard (95 MPH-plus) 47. 6% of the time. Through April 28, he's hit the ball hard 19.