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Christopher Boan is the lead writer at BetArizona.com after covering sports and sports betting in Arizona for more than seven years, including stops at ArizonaSports.com, the Tucson Weekly and the Green Valley News.
Eugenio Suarez is making the most out of his contract year. With 36 home runs in 104 games, the Arizona Diamondbacks third baseman has already surpassed his total from last season, when he needed 158 games to swat 30. Only Shohei Ohtani, with 38, has more dingers in the National League. Suarez, who is in the final season of a seven year, $66 million contract this year, got the team at BetArizona.com thinking about where the 12th year veteran from Venezuela could wind up next before the July 31 trade deadline.
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Team | Odds | Percent Chance |
Philadelphia Phillies | +475 | 17.4% |
Cincinnati Reds | +500 | 16.7% |
Chicago Cubs | +500 | 16.7% |
Seattle Mariners | +650 | 13.3% |
Detroit Tigers | +650 | 13.3% |
Milwaukee Brewers | +700 | 12.5% |
The Field | +700 | 12.5% |
With Suarez’s teammate, Josh Naylor, already being dealt by D’backs GM Mike Hazen, it looks like Arizona’s fully indicating that the club’s in for a roster-wide overhaul, which could open the door for a deal for the 34-year-old infielder.
Chief among the teams that could land Suarez this week include a trio of NL contenders, in the Philadelphia Phillies, who lead the way at +475, while the Cincinnati Reds and Chicago Cubs are deadlocked at +500 apiece and Naylor’s new team (the Seattle Mariners) check in at +650, alongside the AL Central-leading Detroit Tigers, while the Milwaukee Brewers round out the list at +700.
Of the sextet of teams mentioned, the Cubs and Brewers have the best winning percentage this season, at .590 apiece, while the Phillies (.571), Tigers (.570), Mariners and Reds (.528 each) are also in the playoff discussion as the deadline approaches.
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Adding Suarez would add a lot for the Tigers, who find themselves up by eight games in the AL Central but currently ninth in the Majors in terms of home runs hit (with 129), which is something that the veteran infielder can definitely help with, given how Suarez is currently fourth MLB wide with 36 long balls this year.
The 34-year-old Venezuelan would make even more sense in the Emerald City, as the Mariners are currently four games back of the Astros in the AL West at 56-50 and in need of some pop to clinch the club’s first division title since 2001.
Suarez would make even more sense in the City of Brotherly Love, as the Fighting Phils’ are 12th in the Majors in home runs hit (123) and are 1.5 games back of the New York Mets in the NL East race, while the Cubs are third in terms of homers hit (155), Seattle’s fifth (148), Detroit’s ninth (131), while Cincinnati (19th overall, with 109 homers) and Milwaukee (25th, with 98 homers) are even lower down the MLB’s long-ball leaderboard this season.
Suarez is currently in the midst of his best statistical season since 2022, with more WAR (3.4, per Baseball-Reference.com) and a higher OPS (.898) and OPS+ (143) in 104 games than he had last year in 158 games played with Arizona, while hitting his most single season homers (36) since belting 49 with the Cincinnati Reds in 2019.
Throw in the fact that the veteran made the All-Star Game for the first time since 2018 and you have a decent snapshot of why MLB general managers are hot-to-trot to get Suarez from Hazen and the D’backs, with no shortage of potential suitors ahead of the MLB’s trade deadline on Thursday.
USA Today photo by Ron Chenoy.
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Christopher Boan is the lead writer at BetArizona.com after covering sports and sports betting in Arizona for more than seven years, including stops at ArizonaSports.com, the Tucson Weekly and the Green Valley News.
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