{"id":559240,"date":"2026-02-07T07:04:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T07:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/559240\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T07:04:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T07:04:32","slug":"angels-sign-brent-suter-mlb-trade-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/559240\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels Sign Brent Suter – MLB Trade Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

February 6th: The Angels officially announced their signing of Suter today. It\u2019s a $1.25MM deal, according to a report from The Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n

February 5th: The Angels are closing in on a major league deal with free agent left-hander Brent Suter<\/a>, reports Chris Cotillo of MassLive.com<\/a>. The Diamond Sports Management client would be the fourth veteran bullpen signing of the offseason for the Halos.<\/p>\n

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The 36-year-old Suter is a throwback in many ways \u2014 a soft-tossing, rubber-armed lefty who relies more on command and soft contact while often pitching multiple innings per outing. Last year\u2019s 87.3 mph was the second-highest average velocity he\u2019s posted on his four-seamer in any of his 10 big league seasons. His 89.1 mph average sinker was a career-high.<\/p>\n

Obviously, Suter isn\u2019t going to blow any hitters away with power stuff. However, he\u2019s walked only 6.1% of his career opponents (6.2% in 2025) and perennially posts some of the league\u2019s lowest exit velocity and hard-hit rates. Suter can still pick up some punchouts, but last year\u2019s 18.2% mark was four percentage points shy of average. He hasn\u2019t posted a league-average strikeout rate since 2021 and has an overall 18.8% mark in the four seasons since.<\/p>\n

That hasn\u2019t stopped Suter from being a generally effective relief option. Last year\u2019s 4.52 ERA was a career-worst mark but was in part inflated by an abnormally low 69% strand rate. Playing his home games at Cincinnati\u2019s Great American Ball Park didn\u2019t help, as the 1.42 HR\/9 he\u2019s averaged over the past two seasons with the Reds is substantially higher than the 1.07 mark he carried into the 2024 season. That was surely a worthwhile trade-off for the Cincinnati native, who reportedly turned down some better offers to pitch for his hometown club the past couple seasons, but a move to Angel Stadium should bode well for the southpaw in terms of getting his home run rate back down.<\/p>\n

Over the past seasons, Suter ranks 12th among all relief pitchers in innings pitched. He\u2019s had just two IL stints along the way \u2014 three weeks for an oblique strain in \u201923 and six weeks for a teres major strain in \u201924 \u2014 and has logged a collective 3.76 ERA in that time. He\u2019s typically been more of a long man or middle reliever but does have three saves and 24 holds in his career. He worked more than one inning in 22 of his 48 appearances with the Reds in 2025, topping out at 3 2\/3 innings for his longest appearance of the season.<\/p>\n

Despite restructuring the final season of Anthony Rendon<\/a>\u2019s contract such that it\u2019ll defer his remaining salary over a five-year period, it\u2019s been a quiet offseason for the Angels. They\u2019ve added four relievers \u2014 Suter, Jordan Romano<\/a>, Drew Pomeranz<\/a>, Kirby Yates<\/a> \u2014 on low-cost, one-year contracts. Yates ($5MM), Pomeranz ($4MM) and Romano ($2MM) will earn a combined $11MM. Suter\u2019s deal is even cheaper than those already affordable pacts. The team\u2019s other moves include a buy-low trade of Rays outfielder Josh Lowe<\/a> and re-signing Yoan Moncada<\/a> for a year and $4MM.<\/p>\n

That Lowe trade cost the Angels southpaw reliever Brock Burke<\/a>. Signing Suter again gives the Angels a second lefty to pair with Pomeranz in a patchwork bullpen where the average reliever within is now about 33 and a half years old. Suter, Pomeranz, Yates and Romano will be joined by Robert Stephenson<\/a>, Ryan Zeferjahn<\/a> and out-of-options righty Chase Silseth<\/a>. Recent waiver claim Kaleb Ort<\/a> is out of options as well, so he\u2019ll be in the Opening Day group unless he\u2019s designated for assignment before that point; the Angels, notably, will need a 40-man move for Suter unless they wait until camp opens so they can move the aforementioned Rendon to the 60-day IL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"February 6th: The Angels officially announced their signing of Suter today. It\u2019s a $1.25MM deal, according to a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2390],"tags":[291,5,1549,1165,446,3223,774,56,3224,3222,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-559240","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-angels","8":"tag-angels","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-brent-suter","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-la-angels","13":"tag-laangels","14":"tag-los-angeles","15":"tag-los-angeles-angels","16":"tag-losangeles","17":"tag-losangelesangels","18":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116028083563736788","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559240","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=559240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}