Eugenio Suarez Likely to Depart from Diamondbacks Soon

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00:00One player that I would almost guarantee gets moved.

00:03Do not believe, folks, what the Diamondbacks are saying.

00:05Eugenio Suarez, on an expiring deal, the Diamondbacks are not going to hold him

00:10and just try to extend him at the end of the year.

00:12It's a silly, silly talk.

00:14They're going to cash in here in some way.

00:17He has 36 home runs, and we haven't even hit August yet.

00:2287 runs driven in, 249 batting average.

00:24That's not what he's made for.

00:26George Eugenio Suarez has 312 career home runs.

00:31This guy is going to have 400 career home runs,

00:34which puts you on the verge of the Hall of Fame, which is insane.

00:38You'd never consider this guy as a Hall of Famer.

00:41I was being a little facetious, clearly, with his lifetime batting average

00:46and on-base percentage.

00:48I don't know that he would qualify for something like this, but I digress.

00:52I don't know where Suarez is going to go, George,

00:55but he will not be a Diamondback this time next week.

00:58I don't buy anything that's being said there.

01:01Yeah, I agree with you.

01:02I think, once again, we always hear, no, he's not available.

01:05You're trying to drive the price up, right?

01:07I think Cashman for the Yankees did kick the tires on this,

01:10maybe even wanted him, but the price was too high,

01:12not when you need other needs.

01:14And there are teams.

01:15Listen, we talked about the Mariners.

01:17I don't know if they're going to go back to this.

01:19They already got nailed it.

01:20Probably not.

01:21The Cubs, you know, do they believe in Matt Shorten

01:23now for the rest of the season, or do they want to upgrade there?

01:26How about the Brewers?

01:27You know, they're sort of battling each other for it.

01:29All right, Brewers could use a, you know,

01:30a third baseman there, a good third baseman.

01:32So you can hear his name a bunch here,

01:35as far as the Philadelphia Phillies.

01:37If they strike out at a closer, you know,

01:41or top reliever here, they might say,

01:42you know, let's see if we can bludgeon teams to death there.

01:45Alec Baum just went on the IL for them.

01:47So maybe he could be an addition there as well.

01:49Although, once again,

01:50I think they'll be going for bullpen pieces.

01:52So I would be very surprised, you know,

01:54if come 6-0-1 Thursday night, he's not on another team.

01:59All right.

01:59I think he'll be moved there.

02:01As far as, you know, it's a different topic here.

02:04But the Hall of Fame voters are going to have a,

02:06we're going to get a lot of guys who aren't Hall of Famers

02:08who are going to have 400 home runs.

02:09It's just the way today's game is.

02:10Swing as hard as you can and hit the ball a mile.

02:13The game has changed.

02:14So they're going to have to make some weird decisions here,

02:16whatever, 10, 15 years down the line here,

02:18about a whole bunch of players.

02:20Are they really Hall of Famers now?

02:21Because they hit 400 home runs, maybe even 500.

02:25Hall of Fame ceremony tomorrow in Cooperstown.

02:28All right.

02:28Luis Robert, once upon a time,

02:31a superstar type player in baseball.

02:33Last couple of years hasn't gone that way.

02:35And so any team acquiring him,

02:37George, is going to bet on the environment

02:39just being awful for him in Chicago.

02:41Although, look, sometimes players emerge on bad teams.

02:45This has not been the case for Robert.

02:47It's kind of like two years in a row

02:49where he hasn't been maybe his best,

02:51if that's fair to say.

02:5326 stolen bases, 10 home runs.

02:57I think he'll be on the move too.

02:58Some team will find a way.

03:00But I don't think there's any guarantees

03:01with Robert being who he was back in,

03:04I think, 21, 22.

03:06I don't know.

03:07I think, once again, I'd be surprised

03:11if he's not moved here.

03:13The Y-Tex is going to have to eat it here.

03:15He was once a top player, right?

03:16Maybe the top guy at the deadline here.

03:18We've talked about it for a couple of years now.

03:19But his play is cratered.

03:22He is playing better of late,

03:24for whatever it's worth.

03:25Better.

03:25That's not saying much.

03:26You see the numbers there.

03:27It doesn't take much to play better than that.

03:29I think he's a definition of a change of scenery guy,

03:31that he will be a better player on another team.

03:33Maybe not to the level we thought he might be at some point.

03:37But the Y-Tex is going to have to eat it

03:38because this is once a top player

03:39that they're not going to get much for.

03:41Right?

03:41And they already ate it on Eloy Jimenez.

03:43Remember, we thought he was going to be a big thing.

03:44That didn't work out.

03:46Oh, that's right.

03:46You know, Robert, I mean, it's going to be tough for them

03:49because they're going to have to eat some salary maybe.

03:51They're not going to get back to the prospect level

03:52they thought they were going to get.

03:54So we'll see where he ends up.

03:56You know, when I put together teams,

03:59I don't know what fits here.

04:00You know, Dodgers have kicked the tires on him

04:02for a couple of years,

04:03but they really need more bullpen help,

04:05more starting help than they do another outfielder.

04:08So I don't see a perfect team

04:10that's going to want to give up much of anything,

04:13you know, of value for Louis Roberts.

04:15So we'll see.

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