\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Boston Red Sox on Wednesday signed left-handed pitcher Ranger Su\u00e1rez to a five-year contract through the 2030 season with a mutual option for 2031. Su\u00e1rez, 30, made 26 starts for the Philadelphia Phillies in 2025, going 12-8 with a 3.20 ERA while setting career highs in strikeouts, innings pitched, and quality starts. The left-hander’s career-best 4.0 FanGraphs WAR tied the sixth-best mark among National League pitchers, while he ranked seventh among that group in ERA. He also ranked in MLB’s 98th percentile during 2025 in hard-hit percentage (31.1%) and 95th percentile in average exit velocity (86.5 mph). Signed by Philadelphia as an international free agent in April 2012, the Venezuela native has gone 53-37 with a 3.38 ERA (286 ER\/762.0 IP) and 705 strikeouts in 187 career Major League games (119 starts), all with the Phillies (2018-25). He was named a National League All-Star in 2024 and won the 2022 Fielding Bible Award among pitchers.In 11 career Postseason games (eight starts), Su\u00e1rez has gone 4-1 with a 1.48 ERA (7 ER\/42.2 IP), .203 opponent batting average (32-for-158), and 44 strikeouts. He has allowed 1 or 0 earned runs in 10 of those 11 outings, including 5.0 scoreless innings with just three hits allowed in Game 3 of the 2022 World Series against the Houston Astros. During the 2025 Postseason, he earned the win in Game 3 of the National League Division Series by allowing one run over 5.0 innings of relief in the Phillies’ 8-2 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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The Boston Red Sox on Wednesday signed left-handed pitcher Ranger Su\u00e1rez to a five-year contract through the 2030 season with a mutual option for 2031. <\/p>\n
Su\u00e1rez, 30, made 26 starts for the Philadelphia Phillies in 2025, going 12-8 with a 3.20 ERA while setting career highs in strikeouts, innings pitched, and quality starts. <\/p>\n
The left-hander’s career-best 4.0 FanGraphs WAR tied the sixth-best mark among National League pitchers, while he ranked seventh among that group in ERA. <\/p>\n
He also ranked in MLB’s 98th percentile during 2025 in hard-hit percentage (31.1%) and 95th percentile in average exit velocity (86.5 mph). Signed by Philadelphia as an international free agent in April 2012, the Venezuela native has gone 53-37 with a 3.38 ERA (286 ER\/762.0 IP) and 705 strikeouts in 187 career Major League games (119 starts), all with the Phillies (2018-25). <\/p>\n
He was named a National League All-Star in 2024 and won the 2022 Fielding Bible Award among pitchers.<\/p>\n
In 11 career Postseason games (eight starts), Su\u00e1rez has gone 4-1 with a 1.48 ERA (7 ER\/42.2 IP), .203 opponent batting average (32-for-158), and 44 strikeouts. He has allowed 1 or 0 earned runs in 10 of those 11 outings, including 5.0 scoreless innings with just three hits allowed in Game 3 of the 2022 World Series against the Houston Astros. <\/p>\n
During the 2025 Postseason, he earned the win in Game 3 of the National League Division Series by allowing one run over 5.0 innings of relief in the Phillies’ 8-2 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Boston Red Sox on Wednesday signed left-handed pitcher Ranger Su\u00e1rez to a five-year contract through the 2030…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2397],"tags":[70577,70578,70579,5,141,70575,2600,14,70580,3654,62999,32642,70576,4,29264,144,25,4216,40,2320,90,89,3215,286,1373,2350],"class_list":["post-532428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia-phillies","tag-5-year-contract","tag-95th-percentile","tag-average-exit-velocity","tag-baseball","tag-boston","tag-boston-red","tag-era","tag-game","tag-hard-hit-percentage","tag-innings","tag-international-free-agent","tag-left-handed","tag-left-handed-pitcher-ranger-suarez","tag-mlb","tag-national-league-pitcher","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-philadelphiaphillies","tag-phillies","tag-pitcher","tag-ranger-suarez","tag-red-sox","tag-run","tag-sox","tag-start","tag-strikeout"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115938235991940385","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532428","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=532428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}