Eugenio Suárez

Suárez is now a free agent. The infielder/DH did hit 26 homers in his return to Cincinnati, but he did so with just a .212 average while striking out 169 times in 498 at-bats. The 35-year-old should see a market because of his power, but the defensive limitations on top of the contact issues will mean he’s assuredly going to be playing for under that $16 million threshold in 2027.

The 35-year-old slugger and impending free agent started each of the previous five games, so he’ll get a breather at least to begin this one. I’d expect to see him make an appearance off the bench in what could be his final at-bat with the Reds. Juan Brito will start at third base for the Reds and will bat fifth against Jays’ right-hander Max Scherzer.

Suárez’s homer off Antonio Senzatela gave the Reds a 3-2 lead in the sixth. The Brewers briefly tied the game with a Jake Bauers homer in the seventh, only for the Reds to go back ahead on a Tyler Stephenson sac fly in the eighth. Suárez has homered in back-to-back games and now has 24 homers on the season. He’s hit .256 with five homers and 11 RBI in 12 games since it was reported on Aug. 27 that he passed through waivers unclaimed.

Suárez’ home run was his 23rd of the season. He hit a solo shot off Shane Drohan in the second inning. Suárez has hit four home runs in his last 10 games. He’s hitting .212 with a .737 OPS and 65 RBI this year.

Suárez, who missed games Tuesday and Wednesday, homered in his first at-bat back with the Reds after passing his naturalization test and becoming a U.S. citizen. It was his 21st of the year.

Good luck to Geno. He’s expected to miss another game Wednesday before rejoining the Reds. It’s unclear if there will be a roster move here, but his absence might be part of the reason why the Reds promoted Juan Brito as their September callup. Brito is starting at second base tonight, with Matt McLain at shortstop and Elly De La Cruz DHing for a second game in a row.

Suárez being claimed by the Diamondbacks or Mariners would have made for a fun story, but instead he’ll finish out the regular season with the Reds. Neither club was willing to pick up approximately $3 million in salary for the 35-year-old slugger.

Suárez, a free agent at season’s end, has hit .208/.295/.410 with 19 homers and 57 RBI in 410 plate appearances and is a below average third baseman at this point, but some team might be willing to pick up the approximately $3 million he’s still owed in order to add his power. The Mariners and Diamondbacks are both very familiar with him, and the Phillies are short of right-handed power and have time available at both first and third. If Suárez goes unclaimed, he’ll presumably finish out the season as a regular with the Reds.

Cincinnati entered the ninth trailing by six, and Suárez’s grand slam made it a one-run game before any outs were recorded. The veteran DH hasn’t had the season Reds fans or fantasy managers hoped for after last year’s 49-homer eruption. On the positive side, Suárez has played enough at the hot corner this season to retain third base eligibility heading into 2027.

This appears to just be a routine day off for the WBC-winning third baseman. Michael Toglia is batting sixth and DHing in Suárez’s absence.

The Reds were held in check by Sandy Alcantara all night, but finally broke through in the sixth inning when Suárez ripped a double to left-center to bring in Tyler Stephenson for the lone run of the game. Suárez has now hit safely in three of his last four games while driving in six runs over that span.

Suárez’ home run was his 16th of the year. He hit a two-run shot off Nationals reliever Max Koranic in the sixth inning. Suárez’ home run accounted for the entirety of the Reds’ scoring on Saturday. His .300 wOBA is on pace to be the worst of his career. Suárez is hitting .204 with a .688 OPS and 43 RBI.

It looks to be just a routine day off for the 35-year-old slugger. Ke’Bryan Hayes will start in his place at the hot corner and will bat ninth for the Reds against Pirates’ right-hander Mitch Keller on Sunday afternoon in Cincinnati.

Suárez transformed a 2-1 deficit into a 3-2 advantage with his 435-foot (110.5-mph EV) two-run blast off of George Soriano in the seventh inning. That proved to be the difference in the ballgame. With his two-hit attack, the 35-year-old slugger is now slashing .213/.285/.414 with 14 homers and 39 RBI in 291 plate appearances on the season.

Suárez smacked a one-out double off of Gabriel Hughes in the fourth inning, but he wound up being stranded there. He then clobbered a 415-foot (98.6-mph EV) solo shot off of Jimmy Herget in the sixth inning, going back-to-back with Spencer Steer to increase the Reds’ advantage to 4-1. On the season, the 34-year-old slugger is hitting a disappointing .213/.288/.406 with 12 home runs and 36 RBI.

Suárez was responsible for the only run of the game against a terrific Zack Wheeler and then the Philadelphia bullpen. It’s the ninth homer for the 34-year-old in his first season back with the Reds, and he’s plated 32 runs in the process. He also struck out in his other three at-bats, and saying Suárez hasn’t matched his magic of the 2025 season — particularly the first half — is quite the understatement.

Suárez returns to the hot corner and is hitting cleanup following a brief one-game absence after being hit by a pitch on the left hand over the weekend. The 34-year-old veteran slugger underwent imaging, including a CT scan, that didn’t reveal any fractures or structural damage. It’s a significant relief for Cincinnati, and fantasy managers, after a couple tense days of waiting.

It’s challenging to dismiss the possibility of a trip to the injured list despite a CT scan coming back clean on Suarez’s left hand. The 34-year-old veteran was hit by a pitch during Sunday’s series finale against the Pirates but expressed optimism on Monday that he’ll be able to avoid an extended absence after imaging revealed no structural damage. Fantasy managers should prepare to be without Suárez for at least a couple days, but it sounds like he managed to avoid serious injury.

Suárez was unable to get X-rays on Sunday because his hand was too swollen for the imaging to show anything. The team will wait for the swelling to go down and, presumably, will get X-rays done on Monday. We should have more information once that imaging is done.

Suárez was hitless into the ninth before stepping to the plate down by one run with two runners on and two outs in the top of the ninth. Down to the team’s last strike, he delivered an opposite-field homer off Gregory Soto to put the Reds ahead by two runs with his eighth home run of the season. The 34-year-old third baseman is hitting .210/.276/.379 with 18 runs and 29 RBI across 214 plate appearances.