{"id":550316,"date":"2026-02-02T12:36:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T12:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/550316\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T12:36:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T12:36:16","slug":"eugenio-suarez-reportedly-turned-down-a-15-million-offer-from-another-team-before-choosing-the-reds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/550316\/","title":{"rendered":"Eugenio Suarez reportedly turned down a $15 million offer from another team before choosing the Reds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bolavip.com\/en\/topic\/eugenio-suarez\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Eugenio Su\u00e1rez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Eugenio Su\u00e1rez<\/a> recently signed a one-year deal with the Cincinnati Reds, but they were not the only team willing to offer the Venezuelan slugger that level of money. According to a report, the Pittsburgh Pirates also put a similar offer on the table.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m told the Pirates offered the same AAV on Eugenio Suarez ($15 million), were willing to go higher, as well as add another year,\u201d Jason Mackey of the Post-Gazette Sports wrote on X, making it clear that Pittsburgh had been pursuing Su\u00e1rez for some time, as previously reported.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mackey, Su\u00e1rez\u2019s decision to ultimately sign with the Reds came down to familiarity with the organization and the potential to secure a bigger contract down the line. \u201cSounds like his choice came down to a better ballpark fit, familiarity and a chance to cash in next year with a big season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Developing story\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eugenio Su\u00e1rez recently signed a one-year deal with the Cincinnati Reds, but they were not the only team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2400],"tags":[5,535,50,4259,92,4,536],"class_list":{"0":"post-550316","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-reds","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-cincinnati","10":"tag-cincinnati-reds","11":"tag-cincinnatireds","12":"tag-eugenio-suarez","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-reds"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116001071683131420","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550316","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=550316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}