Braves prepare to acquire left-handed Jose Suarez According to the report by Ari Alexander of KPRC2, from Angels. It is not clear what it takes to return to Anaheim in exchange for Suarez’s return. According to Jon Heyman of the New York Post Ian Anderson Head to Anaheim in exchange for Suarez.
Suarez, 27, signed with the Venezuelan Angels and made his debut in 2015. He has spent his entire career so far with the Angels noury and made his first major in 2019. The early years of his major league career didn’t inspire him. He lasted 73% of the 83 1/3 games, and his career was 7.99 ERA, which lasted 2020, which was a 2020 number. speed.
However, for 2021, South Claw is in a big situation and becomes a high-quality swingman in Anaheim. That year’s Grand Slam scored 98 1/3 innings between 14 games and nine relief appearances, and he impressed with a 4.12 FIP on his outing at 3.75 ERA (119 ERA+). This success continues to the 2022 campaign, where Suarez is used as a more traditional trans launcher. That year, he played 20 games (and two relief appearances) for the Angels at the major league level and pitched firmly with an approximately league average of 3.96 ERA and a roughly matched 3.91 FIP. After a successful season back-to-back years, the Angels seem likely to rely on Suarez to be the back-end starter for the swingman in the coming years.
However, this is not what happened because left-handed has been disastrous over the past two seasons. Suarez struggled with 6.91 ERA in 33 appearances since the 2023 campaign began, with 10 of them starting in 86 innings. From 2021 to 22, after hitting 21.5% of opponents and 7.9% of walking, the walking rate balloon dropped to 11.6% over the past two seasons, while his strikeout rate dropped to 20.7%. He also began to give up on increasingly dangerous contacts as his barrel rate ranged from 7.4% in successful years to 9.7% in the past two seasons. That allowed him to allow 17 home runs in those 86 innings, and despite throwing more innings in both seasons, he surrendered in 2021 or 22.
Suarez even found his own minor for much of last year, although he was added to the entire offseason in September’s 40-man roster. But now, he will head to Atlanta, hoping that the scenery changes can help his career get back on track. For the Angels, the move to split up with Suarez’s way follows a mixed race in the camp where he struggled to reach 6.55 ERA but beat 25.5% of his opponents at 9.8% of his walk. For Atlanta, he will offer another left-handed bullpen option that can be deployed in the middle office, allowing Dylan Lee and Aaron Bummer More specifically used in high leverage situations.
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