{"id":11155,"date":"2018-03-16T11:18:04","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T15:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=11155"},"modified":"2018-03-16T11:18:04","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T15:18:04","slug":"reds-announce-seven-year-deal-with-eugenio-suarez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2018\/03\/16\/reds-announce-seven-year-deal-with-eugenio-suarez\/","title":{"rendered":"Reds announce seven-year deal with Eugenio Suarez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2018\/03\/eugeniosuarez.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2018\/03\/eugeniosuarez.jpg 600w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2018\/03\/eugeniosuarez-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Reds and third baseman Eugenio Suarez have come to terms on a seven-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>Suarez, 26, who has been one of the more underated players in baseball was not eligible for free agency until 2021 so such a move buys out his arbitration years as well as some free agent years.<\/p>\n<p>In 156 games last season Suarez hit .260\/.367\/.461 with 26 home runs and 82 RBI. Suarez was moved to third base when the Reds traded Todd Frazier to the White Sox.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Reds?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Reds<\/a> and 3B Eugenio Su\u00e1rez have agreed to terms on a 7-year contract extension through the 2024 season with a club option for 2025. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9WvLhQqVvv\">pic.twitter.com\/9WvLhQqVvv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Cincinnati Reds (@Reds) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Reds\/status\/974664364757344257?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 16, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>With Suarez locked up, it now appears that Nick Senzel&#8217;s path to the majors will be as a middle infielder. <\/p>\n<p>Senzel, 22, owns a .315\/.393\/.514 slash line over two minor league seasons. He spent part of 2017 at Double-A Pensacola but appears ticketed for the big league club sometime in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Reds and third baseman Eugenio Suarez have come to terms on a seven-year deal. Suarez, 26, who has been one of the more underated players in baseball was not eligible for free agency until 2021 so such a move buys out his arbitration years as well as some free agent years. In 156 games [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[384,1054,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-11155","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-cincinnati-reds","9":"tag-eugenio-suarez","10":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11157,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11155\/revisions\/11157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11155"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}