Luis Suisbel Leaves His Mark In Everett

Luis Ángel Suisbel was born in Valencia, Venezuela, and when the Seattle Mariners decided to invest in him in July 2019, he was only 16 years old. The organization gave him a $350,000 signing bonus, one of Seattle’s more significant international investments from that signing class. He was a teenager with tools the Mariners believed were worth investing in for his future. No one could have predicted everything that would come next.

A year later, the COVID-19 pandemic would completely change the beginning of his professional career. Suisbel was unable to make his professional debut immediately and eventually spent his first two professional seasons in the Dominican Summer League, at 18 and 19 years old.

His path later took him through Arizona and Modesto before reaching Everett. In 2024, with the Modesto Nuts, he hit 15 home runs and continued establishing himself as a power hitter within the Mariners system. A year later, his first full season with Everett ended with 23 home runs, at the time the highest total of his career.

But 2025 also gave him something that went beyond any individual statistic: a championship.

During the postseason, Suisbel hit a decisive home run in the final game of the series that helped the AquaSox secure the Northwest League championship. It was one of those moments that becomes part of a season’s memory and helps show the importance of a player within a championship team.

Suisbel has experienced that same feeling in Venezuela. He has played two seasons with the Navegantes del Magallanes, one of the most traditional organizations in the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League (LVBP), the country’s top professional baseball league and one of the leading leagues in the Caribbean Baseball Confederation. But in his case, there is an even more special detail: Magallanes is his hometown team.

Born in Valencia, Suisbel has had the opportunity to represent his own city in Venezuela’s top professional league, wearing the uniform of an organization that has also featured players who later left their mark with the Seattle Mariners, including Carlos Guillén, Félix Hernández and Freddy García. For a player who began his professional career as a teenager, becoming part of that history and wearing the same uniform as some of the most important names in Venezuelan baseball represents a particularly meaningful experience.

There is another detail that stands out in his young professional career. Suisbel has been part of three championship teams over the last two years: the Modesto Nuts, the Everett AquaSox and the Navegantes del Magallanes. Three different experiences, in three different settings, but with something in common: being part of teams that ultimately won a championship.

That is also part of a player’s development. Not everything can be found in a statistical line. Learning how to compete, playing important games and taking responsibility within a team that is trying to win are experiences that ultimately help shape a baseball player.

On the field, Suisbel still has plenty to develop. He is a switch hitter, capable of hitting from both sides of the plate, and this season he has also continued working defensively between first and third base. At both positions, he has made some of the standout defensive plays of his season, showing that his development extends beyond what he can do with the bat.

Power, however, is the tool that has now put his name in the record books.

Dariel Gómez hit 26 home runs in 2022, establishing the AquaSox single-season home run record. Suisbel came close last year with 23. Now Brandon Eike, with 24 home runs in 2026, still has time to tie or surpass Gómez’s mark.

But Eike is also chasing the record Suisbel just established. With 24 home runs this season, he still has an opportunity to surpass Suisbel’s 39 home runs as an AquaSox before the year is over.

That makes the remaining games especially meaningful for Everett’s offensive history. Two of the franchise’s major power records could change hands in the same season.

But before thinking about who will own those records next, it is worth taking a moment to recognize what Luis Suisbel has built in Everett.

A player who signed at 16. Who had to wait to begin his professional career. Who went through the Dominican Summer League, Arizona, Modesto and Everett. Who learned to hit from both sides of the plate. Who developed his defensive game. Who represented his hometown in the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League. Who already knows what it means to be part of championship teams. And who also produced some of the important moments for a team that ultimately lifted the championship trophy.

Luis Suisbel is now the player with the most home runs in Everett AquaSox history.

The record could change hands before this season ends. But from this point forward, Luis Suisbel is part of Everett AquaSox history.

PICTURED ABOVE: Luis Suisbel

PHOTOS BY: Shari Sommerfeld

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