{"id":689504,"date":"2026-05-03T20:15:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T20:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/689504\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T20:15:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T20:15:15","slug":"mariners-claim-jose-suarez-mlb-trade-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/689504\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariners Claim Jose Suarez &#8211; MLB Trade Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"byline\">\n  By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/author\/charlie-wright\" title=\"Posts by Charlie Wright\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charlie Wright<\/a> |<br \/>\n  at May 3, 2026 2:25pm CDT  <\/p>\n<p>The Mariners claimed left-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/suarejo01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-05-03_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jose Suarez<\/a> off waivers from the Braves, the club announced. Outfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/t\/thomarh01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-05-03_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rhylan Thomas<\/a> was designated for assignment. Seattle\u2019s 40-man roster remains full.<\/p>\n<p>Atlanta moved on from Suarez as part of a bullpen reshuffling heading into a series against the Rockies this weekend. The 28-year-old had struggled to a 6.61 ERA over eight outings (one start). The Braves mostly deployed Suarez, a former starter, in multi-inning stints. He recorded a three-inning save against the Phillies in mid-April. Suarez had a career-best 26.6% strikeout rate over 16 1\/3 frames, but it came with a discouraging 15.2% walk rate.<\/p>\n<p>More to come\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Charlie Wright | at May 3, 2026 2:25pm CDT The Mariners claimed left-hander Jose Suarez off waivers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,157,1506],"class_list":["post-689504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-baseball","tag-jose-suarez","tag-rhylan-thomas"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116512484457779407","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689504","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=689504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}