Three months in the past, it was unsure whether or not Eugenio Suárez would end the season with the Diamondbacks. Arizona’s offseason acquisition of the veteran third baseman from the Mariners appeared like a bust. Suárez began the season horribly. He hit .241/.310/.357 by means of the top of April and fell into a good worse hunch over the subsequent two months. From the beginning of Could by means of the top of June, Suárez posted a .165/.259/.280 line whereas placing out greater than 30% of the time.
By the center of June, the D-Backs have been considering a change. On June 9, USA Right this moment’s Bob Nightengale wrote that the D-Backs have been keen to contemplate what would’ve been a wage dump commerce. Nightengale indicated that Suárez’s maintain on the third base job was tenuous and supervisor Torey Lovullo mentioned a few days later that the Snakes would give extra third base reps to rookie Blaze Alexander. That by no means actually transpired, as Alexander scuffled within the restricted taking part in time he did obtain.
On the identical time, Suárez started to search out his footing. He reached base at a .391 clip between the time of Lovullo’s feedback and the top of the month. As soon as the calendar flipped to July, he remodeled into an elite energy menace.
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