Signing Ranger Su\u00e1rez adds another prolific veteran starter to a suddenly stacked Boston Red Sox rotation. It also gives them more representation in MLB Network\u2019s Top 100 player rankings.<\/p>\n
MLB Network unveiled<\/a> the 61st to 80th-ranked players on Wednesday, the same day Su\u00e1rez signed<\/a> a reported five-year, $130 million deal with Boston. Su\u00e1rez, who was unranked last year, made the list at No. 79.<\/p>\n Su\u00e1rez ranked one spot ahead of free-agent southpaw Framber Valdez and six behind Joe Ryan, a popular midseason trade candidate<\/a> for Boston. The 30-year-old is 21 places above Dylan Cease, who signed a seven-year, $210 million deal with the Toronto Blue Jays.<\/p>\n Former Red Sox champion Nathan Eovaldi (No. 64) and Freddy Peralta (No. 63), whose name has frequently surfaced<\/a> on the offseason hot stove, also made Wednesday\u2019s rankings reveal. Red Sox closer Aroldis Chapman resides at No. 84 after a dominant comeback year. <\/p>\n One could argue Su\u00e1rez deserved recognition in last year\u2019s Top 100 after registering a 3.46 ERA for the Philadelphia Phillies in 2024. He earned more respect with a strong encore, posting a 3.20 ERA and career-high 151 strikeouts in 157 1\/3 innings last season.<\/p>\n Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n Su\u00e1rez ranks 15th in fWAR<\/a> (15.2) among all starting pitchers in the last five seasons, brandishing a 3.25 ERA and 51.9 percent ground-ball rate. Last year\u2019s 31.1 hard-hit percentage<\/a> ranked among MLB\u2019s top two percent.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The crafty left-handed pitcher joins fellow offseason acquisitions Sonny Gray and Johan Oviedo alongside Garrett Crochet and Brayan Bello to give Boston a formidable starting staff in 2026. Crochet should certainly appear much higher in MLB Network\u2019s ongoing Top 100 rankings reveal.<\/p>\n Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Signing Ranger Su\u00e1rez adds another prolific veteran starter to a suddenly stacked Boston Red Sox rotation. It also…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,4,90],"class_list":{"0":"post-522459","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-ranger-suarez"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115901674823952526","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}