The Seattle Mariners have made two of the biggest deals of the 2025 trade deadline so far by acquiring Josh Naylor and Eugenio Suárez from the Arizona Diamondbacks. Naylor would have made sense as a target for the Boston Red Sox, as they need a full-time first baseman to relieve the Abraham Toro-Romy Gonzalez platoon at the position.
After the late-night Suárez trade, Ken Rosenthal and Jen McCaffrey of The Athletic reported that the Red Sox were also in the mix for him (subscription required). Boston's pursuit of Suárez had been quiet and few to no links between the two sides leaked before the deal.