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Eugenio Suárez

Cincinnati Reds National League CentralDH

Age: 35
B/T: R/R
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 213 lb
Number: #28

Born: July 18, 1991 in Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela
MLB debut: June 4, 2014
Salary, 2026: $15M

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dbWAR: 36.5
PA: 498
AVG: .212
OBP: .307
SLG: .433
wRC+: 108

Eugenio Suárez is a designated hitter for the Cincinnati Reds. In 2026 he hit 26 home runs and knocked in 74 RBIs, notching 92 hits across 498 plate appearances in 125 games. His batting average was .212, 13.1% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .307 clip and slugged .433, for an OPS of .740, 3.0% higher than the league mark of .719 — 4th of 18 on his team, and 155th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 88.5 mph off the bat, hit 36.9% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 12.2% of them and made contact on 66.2% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 108 wRC+ puts his offence 8% above average. That comes to 1.3 dbWAR — +2.9 runs with the bat, +0.8 for the ballpark, -0.8 on the bases, -0.9 on double plays, -5.2 for the position he plays, against replacement level. It includes no fielding: defensive runs are proprietary and are not estimated here, so the figure credits playing a demanding position but not playing it well.

League context

Percentile among qualified batters, 2026 regular season.

wRC+108

wOBA.325

ISO.221

BB%10.4%

WAR1.3

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +12.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2026	CIN	125	498	92	26	74	1	52	169	.212	.307	.433	.221	.273	10.4%	33.9%	.325	+2.9	108	1.3
2025	AZ/SEA	159	657	134	49	118	4	46	196	.228	.298	.526	.298	.243	7.0%	29.8%	.347	+17.5	122	4.2
2024	AZ	157	640	146	30	101	2	49	176	.256	.319	.469	.214	.309	7.7%	27.5%	.339	+14.1	116	3.7
2023	SEA	162	694	139	22	96	2	70	214	.232	.323	.391	.159	.314	10.1%	30.8%	.315	-3.0	99	2.2
2022	SEA	150	629	128	31	87	0	73	196	.236	.332	.459	.223	.302	11.6%	31.2%	.347	+17.8	129	3.9
2021	CIN	145	574	100	31	79	0	56	171	.198	.286	.428	.230	.224	9.8%	29.8%	.309	-4.0	88	1.3
2020	CIN	57	231	40	15	38	2	30	67	.202	.312	.470	.268	.214	13.0%	29.0%	.334	+2.3	104	1.0
2019	CIN	158	662	156	49	103	3	70	189	.271	.358	.572	.301	.312	10.6%	28.5%	.384	+34.9	140	5.4
2018	CIN	142	606	149	34	104	1	64	142	.283	.366	.526	.243	.322	10.6%	23.4%	.380	+30.3	138	4.8
2017	CIN	155	632	139	26	82	4	84	147	.260	.367	.461	.200	.309	13.3%	23.3%	.361	+19.0	124	3.6
2016	CIN	159	627	140	21	70	11	51	155	.248	.317	.411	.163	.304	8.1%	24.7%	.320	-0.9	99	2.0
2015	CIN	96	398	104	13	48	4	17	94	.280	.315	.446	.167	.341	4.3%	23.6%	.331	+4.6	107	2.2
2014	DET	81	277	59	4	23	3	22	67	.242	.316	.336	.094	.316	7.9%	24.2%	.298	-3.2	89	0.9

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason batting

Postseason Eugenio Suárez's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2025 Post	SEA	Postseason total	12	51	47	4	10	1	3	8	4	18	.213	.275	.426	.700
		ALDS	5	22	21	1	2	0	1	1	1	9	.095	.136	.238	.374
		ALCS	7	29	26	3	8	1	2	7	3	9	.308	.379	.577	.956
2022 Post	SEA	Postseason total	5	21	20	5	7	2	1	3	1	5	.350	.381	.600	.981
		Wild Card	2	9	9	3	4	2	0	2	0	3	.444	.444	.667	1.111
		ALDS	3	12	11	2	3	0	1	1	1	2	.273	.333	.545	.879
2020 Post	CIN	Wild Card	2	10	9	0	2	0	0	0	1	4	.222	.300	.222	.522
2014 Post	DET	ALDS	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
Career		Postseason total · 4 Octobers	20	83	77	9	19	3	4	11	6	27	.247	.301	.442	.743

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2026. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHP	129	105	19	6	23	47	.181	.333	.381	.324	36.4%
vs RHP	369	329	73	20	29	122	.222	.298	.450	.326	33.1%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2026.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 263 tracked batted balls in 2026. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 12.2%
Exit velocity: 88.5
Max exit velo: 111.3
Hard hit: 36.9%
Sweet spot: 40.3%
Launch angle: 21.2°

Barrel rate12.2%

Exit velocity88.5 mph

Hard hit rate36.9%

Contact rate66.2%

A barrel is a batted ball whose exit velocity and launch angle have historically produced at least a .500 average and 1.500 slugging — 98 mph within 26–30°, widening to 8–50° by 116 mph. Reconstructed from Statcast's published anchor points, which reproduces them exactly; the interior is within a degree. Sweet spot (8–32°) is an exact definition.

Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2026.

Below averageLeague averageAbove average

Batting average by location of the pitch that ended each plate appearance, catcher's view. The bordered square is the strike zone; the outer band is chase territory. Cells with fewer than 8 at-bats are left grey rather than shown as signal. League average on the same attribution is .243.

Situational hitting

How Eugenio Suárez hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.

Split by

By who is on base when he comes up. The season line is repeated as the baseline.
Situation	PA	AB	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA
All situations	498	—	—	—	—	—	—	.212	.307	.433	.325
Bases empty	269	232	45	13	14	30	84	.194	.305	.401	.316
Runner on first	106	97	22	4	11	8	42	.227	.292	.402	.307
Runners on	229	202	47	13	60	22	85	.233	.310	.470	.336
RISP	123	105	25	9	49	14	43	.238	.325	.533	.362

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2026.

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Nearest 2026 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Kazuma OkamotoTOR

wRC+: 111
HR: 33
AVG: .234
WAR: 2.9

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Coby MayoBAL

wRC+: 111
HR: 24
AVG: .228
WAR: 1.9

Colson MontgomeryCWS

wRC+: 89
HR: 31
AVG: .197
WAR: 1.8

Carter JensenKC

wRC+: 112
HR: 27
AVG: .239
WAR: 3.5

How these are computed

wOBA uses linear weights measured from this season's own play-by-play rather than published constants, and wRC+ is park-adjusted against that same league. dbWAR is our own open implementation — not fWAR or bWAR — and the full derivation, including its simplifications, is on the methodology page.