The Marlins were expected to trade Sandy Alcantara at the deadline. The former Cy Young winner had returned from the Tommy John surgery that wiped out his 2024 season. The hope was that he'd immediately recapture his ace form, demonstrate that over his first 18-20 starts, and be the prize of the summer rotation market.
Alcantara's return didn't go anywhere near that smoothly. His velocity was back, but he struggled to throw strikes or miss bats. He allowed over eight earned runs per nine innings in April and May. He showed flashes in June and July but remained up-and-down. Miami's deadline calculus became whether to sell low on their longtime ace -- a move that would've been more about cutting his $17MM salaries through 2026 than netting a huge prospect return. Given the organizational history, no one would've been surprised if they'd gone that route.
They instead decided to hold Alcantara and were only modest sellers overall. Miami dealt third catcher Nick Fortes to Tampa Bay and flipped platoon outfielder Jesús Sánchez to Houston for a three-player package. In addition to Alcantara, Edward Cabrera, Kyle Stowers, Anthony Bender and Calvin Faucher all stayed.
Miami was willing to cover what remained of Alcantara's 2025 salary to take a couple more months to get him on track. That has paid off. The 30-year-old righty has looked more like his old self. He's showing better control than he did in April and May. The improved efficiency has allowed him to work deeper into games. His stuff has gotten sharper as the season has progressed. That'll all be very encouraging as the Marlins field new trade offers in the offseason.
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Do you trust his last 10 outings?
Or the 20 awful starts prior?
Last 6 but who’s counting.
It’s enough sample size for some teams I would think. Velocity being back much longer than that is the big one. Teams were ready to buy him at deadline but Marlins weren’t ready to sell.
I’m paying for pieces about transactions, not something that Alcantara’s agent gave MLBTR to make him look better in front of the execs on this site daily.
Nice conspiracy theory. Not sure this article would change the minds of mlb execs if they even read it. Unless they are unaware of his last 6 games and are interested in trading for him. If they had any interest in him they were likely scouting him already.
This is what you are paying for. Additional articles. Live chats. Agent directory. Transaction articles are free.
@Enregistre What particularly in this article is information one would conclude came from his agent??
The notion that any MLB execs would rely on simply news articles is laughable to say the least. Do you lack any ability to critically think or do you just fail to do so???
The site is called MLB Trade Rumors…and Sandy is a trade candidate…or rumored to be one anyhow. LOL.
@Case Nobody disputed that he is a trade candidate or what the name of this site is.
There is also a big difference between a rumor and a bold faced lie….
En: You’re paying 10 cents a day for baseball information. You seem more like a Bleacher Report kinda guy. Keep flexing your spending power.
Winning one award and not even once voted in the previous seasons, the player is not a true award winner it’s a just fluke.