Suárez, Carroll to join Marte as reserves for NL at 2025 All-Star Game

PHOENIX -- The 2025 National League All-Star lineup has gained an infusion of snake venom.

Both Eugenio Suárez and Corbin Carroll were named All-Star reserves Sunday during the club’s 4-0 loss at Chase Field to the Royals, marking their respective second such selections.

The duo will join Ketel Marte in Atlanta on July 15 for the MLB All-Star Game. Marte was voted in by the fans as the NL’s starting second baseman for the second consecutive season.

Arizona last had multiple All-Star Game representatives back in 2023 when Carroll, Zac Gallen, Lourdes Gurriel Jr. and Geraldo Perdomo all made the squad in Seattle. With Carroll, Marte and Suárez getting the nod this year, it marks the fourth time in franchise history three or more position players have received the honor (‘23, 2002, 1999).

“Super happy that [I’m] gonna have an opportunity to go with them,” Marte said via interpreter Rolando Valles. “This is another example of people that are humble and work hard. [I’m] happy that it's paying off for them.”

For Suárez, it marks his first trip to the Midsummer Classic since 2018 as a member of the Reds. Dating back to last year’s second half, Suárez has crushed 48 home runs in 152 games, the fourth most in the Majors behind only Shohei Ohtani, Aaron Judge and Cal Raleigh, all of whom will be his peers in Atlanta.

“I think the hard work I’ve been putting into my career … to be successful and to have good results, and now to be announced today to be as an All-Star, I personally feel great,” Suárez said. “I feel happy, feel proud of myself because I know I’m working hard with conviction.

“I told myself earlier this year that one of my goals is to be part of the All-Star Game, and today, that dream has come true.”

Suárez entered the day second in the National League in home runs (28), while tying for second in RBIs (73). He’s been particularly scalding at the dish since the start of June, as he leads the NL in extra-base hits (18), homers (13) and RBIs (31) in that span entering play Sunday.

The 33-year-old is just two home runs away from delivering his sixth 30-homer campaign in the big leagues, with a percentage of hits going for roundtrippers at a pace unlike any other in D-backs franchise history.

Of Suárez’s first 81 hits, 28 left the yard, accounting for a 34.6 percent rate. That would set a new Arizona franchise record, with the current high belonging to Mark Reynolds, who homered on 32.6% of his hits during a 32-homer season in 2010. No other player in club history has delivered a rate higher than 29 percent.

After a slow start to the 2024 campaign, Carroll finds himself back among the game’s best for the Midsummer Classic for the second time in three seasons. He’s already eclipsed the 20-homer plateau for the third consecutive year and his 145 OPS+ entering Sunday is on pace to set a new career high.

Despite sustaining a fractured left hand on June 18, Carroll swiftly returned to the lineup Saturday. It was just three years ago that the 24-year-old first headed to All-Star weekend -- to participate in the Futures Game. Three years later, Carroll is headed back as a two-time member of the National League All-Stars, surrounded by the game’s best.

“It's a great recognition,” Carroll said. “Just really, really happy to be in this position compared to the spot I was last year. I think it says a lot about the work that we both put in individually but as a group, too. I think when you talk about the individual accomplishments, accolades and being recognized, a lot of that is based on the work of the whole of our offense and I think it's really cool to be celebrated in that way and recognized, but … I think to be able to represent kind of the whole is meaningful.”

The D-backs entered Sunday averaging 5.18 runs per game, the third-highest mark in the NL behind just the Dodgers (5.54) and Cubs (5.4). Suárez, Carroll and Marte have, for all intents and purposes, kept the club afloat and in the NL playoff hunt through a first half that has featured a spate of pitching injuries.

It’s a tight-knit group, one that the wider baseball world will get to enjoy on one of its biggest stages.

“It means a lot,” Suárez said. “For me, I think Ketel, he for me is the best second baseman in the league and to be able to play with him and Corbin and represent the D-backs, represent our city and together as a group, it's very awesome and it means a lot to me.”