{"id":104819,"date":"2025-07-26T17:21:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T21:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=104819"},"modified":"2025-07-26T17:21:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T21:21:31","slug":"report-phillies-have-inquired-eugenio-suarez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/07\/26\/report-phillies-have-inquired-eugenio-suarez\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Phillies Have Inquired About Diamondbacks Infielder"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to a report<\/a> from Scott Lauber of the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Philadelphia Phillies have inquired about<\/a> acquiring Arizona Diamondbacks infielder Eugenio Su\u00e1rez in a trade. Lauber wrote that the two teams have held trade talks. Additionally, Lauber and Jeff Kerr of CBS Sports reported that the Diamondbacks were scouting Mick Abel during his July 25 Triple-A outing. Abel has a 2-2 record with a 5.04 ERA in six major league starts. In the minor leagues this season, Abel has a 7-2 record with a 2.31 ERA in 13 starts.<\/p>\n

All signs point to the Diamondbacks trading Su\u00e1rez ahead of the July 31 trade deadline.<\/p>\n

Phillies Interested In Trading For Eugenio Su\u00e1rez<\/h2>\n

Multiple other teams are reportedly interested in acquiring Su\u00e1rez as well. Su\u00e1rez is probably the best position player currently available in a trade. It is also worth noting that Su\u00e1rez is scheduled to be a free agent this offseason. Su\u00e1rez is also 34 amid his age-33 season. The Diamondbacks’ decision to trade Josh Naylor to the Seattle Mariners on July 24 indicates\u00a0that they will be selling.<\/p>\n

2025 Performance<\/h3>\n

This season, Su\u00e1rez has a .249\/.321\/.587 line with 36 home runs and 87 RBI in 102 games. To add to that, Su\u00e1rez has a 145 wRC+ and a .246 BABIP this year. Su\u00e1rez has a 0.26 BB\/K rate this season. Furthermore, Su\u00e1rez has a career-best 51.1% Hard-hit rate, along with a 26.3% HR\/FB rate. Heading into play on July 26, Su\u00e1rez ranks tied for fourth in the majors in home runs and leads the majors in RBI. The .908 OPS Su\u00e1rez has ranked eighth in the majors among qualified players entering play on July 26. On July 25, Su\u00e1rez appeared at first base for the first time in his major league career, playing two innings at the position. Su\u00e1rez has experience at both third base and shortstop.<\/p>\n

Potential Lineup And Defensive Fit<\/h3>\n

The Phillies need a right-handed bat to balance their lineup. Su\u00e1rez would add protection for left-handed hitters Bryce Harper and Kyle Schwarber. Having a lineup top four of Trea Turner, Schwarber, Harper, and Su\u00e1rez could help mitigate some of the postseason problems the Phillies have had. Defensively, Harper would likely move to the outfield, which he is open to<\/a> for the right player. Alec Bohm is currently on the injured list, so Harper could remain at first base until Bohm comes back if Su\u00e1rez goes to the Phillies. Bohm does have extensive experience playing first base at the major league level. That would lead to Su\u00e1rez becoming the club’s third baseman.<\/p>\n

Reshuffling That Would Occur If A Deal Happens<\/h3>\n

Bohm being traded as part of this is a possibility. During the offseason, it seemed certain<\/a> that Bohm would be on the move. However, that did not happen. Another scenario involves Nick Castellanos getting traded. This would allow Harper to move to his more natural outfield position, right field, instead of left field. In addition to that aspect of things, Jon Heyman of the New York Post recently reported<\/a> that the Kansas City Royals have thought about trading for Castellanos. If the Phillies move Castellanos and trade for Su\u00e1rez, this opens the door for Justin Crawford to take over left field from Max Kepler. This is also contingent on the Phillies not trading Crawford in a deadline deal.<\/p>\n

Main Photo Credits: Charles LeClaire-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to a report from Scott Lauber of the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Philadelphia Phillies have inquired about acquiring Arizona Diamondbacks infielder Eugenio Su\u00e1rez in a trade. Lauber wrote that the two teams have held trade talks. Additionally, Lauber and Jeff Kerr of CBS Sports reported that the Diamondbacks were scouting Mick Abel during his July […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4566,"featured_media":104822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,1071,35],"tags":[1987,315,761,5799,516,511,3657,1094,300],"class_list":["post-104819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phillies","category-mlb","category-news","tag-alec-bohm","tag-bryce-harper","tag-eugenio-suarez","tag-justin-crawford","tag-kyle-schwarber","tag-max-kepler","tag-mick-abel","tag-nick-castellanos","tag-trea-turner"],"modified_by":"Evan Mazza, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104819"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104825,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104819\/revisions\/104825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}