{"id":96648,"date":"2025-03-01T15:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T20:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=96648"},"modified":"2025-03-01T15:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T20:43:10","slug":"ranger-suarez-unlikely-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/03\/01\/ranger-suarez-unlikely-contract-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies Starting Pitcher Unlikely To Get Contract Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"

Philadelphia Phillies starting pitcher Ranger Su\u00e1rez will probably not receive a contract extension. Su\u00e1rez is entering his last season of team control making $8.8 million. Furthermore, Su\u00e1rez is one of three players that have been with the team for a few years, entering the last year of their contract. Kyle Schwarber and J.T. Realmuto are also in line to be free agents<\/a> after the 2025 season. Extensions for Schwarber and Realmuto are a higher priority because of positional considerations. Realmuto is the most likely to get an extension between him, Su\u00e1rez, and Schwarber. The Phillies lack depth at the catching<\/a> position making it important to extend Realmuto keeping him with the team for a few more years before Eduardo Tait is ready.<\/p>\n

In seven seasons with the Phillies, Su\u00e1rez has a 41-29 record, a 3.42 ERA, and one All-Star appearance in 2024. Su\u00e1rez has exclusively been a starting pitcher for the last three seasons after being in a hybrid role his first four seasons. Last season, in 27 starts, Su\u00e1rez had a 12-8 record with a 3.46 ERA and a career-high 145 strikeouts. Su\u00e1rez recorded a 117 ERA+ and a 3.37 FIP in 2024. For his career, Su\u00e1rez has a 3.63 FIP and a 121 ERA+. In 10 postseason outings, Su\u00e1rez has a 3-1 record with a 1.43 ERA along with 40 strikeouts. Su\u00e1rez has a career 20.7% cWPA in the postseason. In addition, Su\u00e1rez has a 2.79 FIP and a 1.035 WHIP in the postseason, with a 3.33 strikeout-to-walk rate.<\/p>\n

Highly Ranked Pitching Prospect Expected To Reach Majors During 2025 Season<\/h3>\n

Top prospect Andrew Painter is going to pitch in the majors if everything goes smoothly with their workload management plan<\/a> for him. Painter arriving in the majors later this season could lead to Su\u00e1rez moving to the bullpen. Depending on exactly when Painter gets called up, a six-man rotation is also a possibility. Zack Wheeler has expressed displeasure<\/a> with a six-man rotation on multiple occasions. Phillies manager Rob Thomson has still used a six-man rotation on a few occasions despite how Wheeler feels about it. However, this is still some ways off, and things could easily change between now and then. Those decisions are probably going to be made at the time Painter is ready to come up to the major leagues later this year.<\/p>\n

Offseason Move Changing The Equation<\/h3>\n

The Phillies trade for<\/a> Jes\u00fas Luzardo decreased the chances for a new deal for Su\u00e1rez. Luzardo is under team control through the 2026 season and is a left-handed pitcher like Su\u00e1rez is. Matt Gelb of The Athletic reported at one point<\/a> in the offseason that the Phillies were having trade conversations regarding Su\u00e1rez. With Painter expected to arrive in the summer, it is possible that Su\u00e1rez will get traded by the deadline. What happens at that point remains to be seen. Su\u00e1rez might not end up getting trade when Painter gets called up to preserve starting pitching depth. Additionally, Su\u00e1rez is a dominant postseason pitcher and has started and closed out games during his career. Su\u00e1rez has four regular-season saves and one postseason save.<\/p>\n

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

Philadelphia Phillies starting pitcher Ranger Su\u00e1rez will probably not receive a contract extension. Su\u00e1rez is entering his last season of team control making $8.8 million. Furthermore, Su\u00e1rez is one of three players that have been with the team for a few years, entering the last year of their contract. Kyle Schwarber and J.T. Realmuto are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4566,"featured_media":96655,"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],"tags":[4784,469,3425,516,3009,683],"class_list":["post-96648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phillies","tag-andrew-painter","tag-j-t-realmuto","tag-jesus-luzardo","tag-kyle-schwarber","tag-ranger-suarez","tag-zack-wheeler"],"modified_by":"Evan Mazza, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96648","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=96648"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96657,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96648\/revisions\/96657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}