Sluggin\u2019 infielder slash designated hitter Eugenio Su\u00e1rez belted 49 homers between time spent with the Arizona Diamondbacks and Seattle Mariners in 2025. He blasted 49 homers for the Cincinnati Reds back in 2019, too, a year when everyone was seemingly blastin\u2019 dingers at a record clip.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s done it when everyone was doing it, and he\u2019s done it when none of the Reds were. He\u2019s a homer-bashing machine with 325 of them already on his ledger, and a quick glance at some of the underlying metrics behind his swing suggest he\u2019s not about to immediately slow down at age 34 in 2026.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s a fundamentally different hitter than he was during that brilliant 2019 campaign with the Reds, but the game itself is fundamentally different now, too. What isn\u2019t fundamentally different now, though, is that a) Great American Ball Park is still a homer-honkin\u2019 launching pad and b) Geno Su\u00e1rez can still very much knock the crud out of the ball, and does so mostly into the air. In fact, his 50.4% fly-ball rate (per FanGraphs) ranked as athe 4th highest among the 145 qualified hitters in the game last season, with Seattle teammate Cal Raleigh (he of the 60 smashed dingers of his own) leading the pack at over 57%.<\/p>\n
Factor in that he\u2019s on a one-year \u2018prove it\u2019 contract, and there\u2019s every reason to believe Su\u00e1rez is going to belt 40, 50, even 123 homers in a Reds uniform in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sluggin\u2019 infielder slash designated hitter Eugenio Su\u00e1rez belted 49 homers between time spent with the Arizona Diamondbacks and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,4,4270],"class_list":{"0":"post-559321","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-stat-colored-glasses"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116028432450866158","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559321","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=559321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}