Kevin Gorman

But that is a ballpark that is more conducive, Great American Ballpark, to a right-handed bat than PNC Park.

PNC Park is where right-handed hummers go to die in that cavernous left field, especially the north side notch.

It's been a source of frustration for

for Pirates right-handed hitters, especially last year.

You heard a lot of complaints from Andrew McCutcheon and Isaiah Canofalefa and guys like that.

Some of the guys, the right-handed hitters told me some of them were refusing to take batting practice outdoors because they felt like it was demoralizing.

And there was talk that they should move the fence in or at least eliminate the notch.

So I can see where a guy who had the bulk of the success of his career was in Cincinnati.

that Suarez would choose the Reds, who were a playoff team last year, and also have great starting pitching.

I mean, that's one of the underrated things.

That's the Pirates' job, for sure.

For certain.

But, I mean, they've got one of the top ten pitchers in baseball in Hunter Green, and they've got some depth behind that, especially with the rookie Chase Burns, who was touching triple digits.

So, you know, the Reds may look more appealing.

Now, they have keep Ryan Hayes at third base, so Suarez isn't going to be playing third base for the Reds.

He's most likely going to be

probably playing first base or dh and i would imagine it's mostly dh i don't know that the pirates wanted to spend 15 million dollars on strictly a dh they've taken care of first base between ryan o'hearn and spencer horwitz and here's my take and this is simply the way i looked at it was suarez is not a good defender so you're defensively downgrading a third base but you're upgrading in a major way in terms of home runs and rbis um

but he also strikes out a lot.

And he's a guy who, after being traded last year, I think he batted below the Mendoza line and had a sub 300 on base percentage.

So there are some trade-offs, but I also agree with you guys.