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.
Why should I pay for the additional articles that Fangraphs does a better job at AND 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???
Congrats, you lost the argument by making a personal attack on me! Chalk up another W for me.
This is not an argument. So I take it you cam not substantiate your statement with anything even remotely close to a fact.
I don’t need to substantiate it because you attacked me, rather than solely my point. It doesn’t matter because you resorted to ad hominem. So you lost your credibility to refute me. Take the L and move on.
I did not attack, someone disagreeing ans asking you to back a claim is bot an attack. And no it was not ad hominem, I was disputing your claim not attacking you.
Still waiting for you to substantiate said claim with fact…
You saying “do you lack any ability to critically think or do you just fail to do so???” is making it personal. You attacked me, not the claim.
That was a legitimate question as the notion you claimed was that preposterous. I did not call you any names or make any derogatory attacks against you as an individual.
Pointing out how ridiculous a statement is and asking for any fact to substantiate it is not in any way a personal attack.
Way to do anything but substantiate your claim with anything remotely factual based….
Lmao, you think that saying to someone “do you lack any ability to critically think” isn’t derogatory? What planet do you live on?
You could have just said “what basis do you have for that statement?” but you chose to be snarky, and that’s why you’ve lost this argument.
And you could have not made an asinine baseless claim. What’s your point?
Asking someone a question is not derogatory. I also in no way referred to you as anything deragatory.
Im not here to argue. And if I were you would have anything but won. You still have done absolutely nothing to substantiate your ridiculous claim. And yes any notion that MLB execs ignore their scouts, analytics , and data and are relying on articles from the internet is asinine.
“Asinine” my god, dude, you’re working REALLY hard to stan for a website that you don’t even pay to support. Sit down already.
You asked if I had no critical thinking ability. That is derogatory. If I ask a question “do you have a brain?” that would be derogatory,
You’re also going way off the rails by suggesting that I think they ignore their scouts and rely on articles. It’s been proven for years that MLB execs are reading this site daily. They are seeing these player-friendly articles.
Again still waiting for anything fact based.
Here is an example of providing something fact based. I provided an opinion on your baseless claim that I think is absurd. While doing so I spoke only of the topic and that of said baseless claim. In doing so I I said nothing inflammatory or derogatory towards you as an individual.
Sorry you do not like my opinion that your baseless claim lacked any critical thinking. I expanded upon why.
If you could only spend a shred of this energy substantiate your claim with even one fact….
FYI, people disagreeing with you or pointing that an unsubstantiated claim is absurd is not derogatory. Sorry nobody is required to agree with you. And below I took the liberty of providing the definition of derogatory.
Derogatory – Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | Vocabulary.com share.google/C3PXetkOQ4LxgaCTR
Move those goalposts! You went from saying that I, myself, lack the ability to critically think, and now are saying you think my baseless claim lacks critical thinking. Backing off from your original point because you know you were wrong, and that you lost this argument by using a logical fallacy. Digging your hole deeper.
Nice gaslight job too. You think that asking someone if they have lack any ability to critically think isn’t derogatory and are “just asking questions.”
Let’s use your definition: “Something that’s derogatory is insulting or disrespectful. If you make derogatory comments, that means you say things that are unflattering, unkind, or demeaning.”
Anyone—except you, apparently—would agree that asking someone if they can’t critically think is derogatory and inflammmatory about me as an individual. Go ask people ont the street, I guarantee they will agree. You are insinuating that I’m stupid or somehow lesser than you as an individual. This is pretty clear, and you’re just “asking questions.” This is laughable.
Yet you are hammering on about this “fact-based” nonsense and avoiding that you made an ad hominem attack on me because it doesn’t fit your narrative. You just want to avoid how it ruined your white-knighting for an internet website. And I even did prove it with the fact that MLB execs are reading this site daily!
Let me put it this way: if I said you lack the ability to think critically because you are not understanding how you insulted me, and how you fail to understand how your definition of derogatory meets what you said to me initially, wouldn’t you feel insulted? “Tigers3232 lacks the ability to think critically” sounds like an insult!
Again, you have lost this argument. It is time for you to exit this conversation and avoid embarrassing yourself further.
It absolutely is a baseless claim. When a claim is made that is unsubstantiated or even mentioned in the article and then when said claim is questioned and one cant back with fact it is in fact unsubstantiated…..
Not sure why you think Id be embarrassed. Im still waiting for you to substantiate what you said. I myself have provided multiple facts to back what Ive said. You yourself, nothing….
UNSUBSTANTIATED Definition & Meaning – Merriam-Webster share.google/sNgciVGJDT8Xskuzn
The irony is you are the one slandering someone else, making a direct accusation. Yet when called out all you do is try and cry foul opposed to backing what you said with anything of substance….
SLANDER Definition & Meaning – Merriam-Webster merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slander
You’ve put forth exactly zero facts to back up anything you’ve said. And you think you know what these words mean! You’re so cute, lil guy.
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You don’t even subscribe to Front Office and can’t even read this article! No leg to stand on.
I’ve backed up what I said. You’re just desparately trying to get attention from this site’s writers by defending them, and thinking you’re backing up what you say but not actually doing so. I challenge you to provide one instance of you backing up your refusal with fact. You can’t, because you haven’t.
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Where is there anything that substantiate hid agent or any agent paying for articles? Where is there anything that substantiates GMs are signing players based off of articles opposed to scouting and analytics??
Substantiating a claim involves providing a fact that clearly backs it. Not providing what led you to come to an assumption.
The assertion that agents are paying to have articles wrote thinking its going to sway GMs is absurd. Any GM spending million$ of an owners $ based on their opinions of articles would be looking for a jon immediately. They have entire depts dedicated to scouting and analytics, they are much more in tune with players talents and values .
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….
That doesn’t make cents
That’s a weirdo, smooth brain take if I’ve ever seen one. The piece is grounded in Alcantara’s statistical performance since the trade deadline. Mlbtr and mlb gms do not need prompting from Sandy’s agent to pay attention to a talented cy young winner making significant money on a low budget rebuilding team as a potential offseason trade candidate.
Congrats, you lost the argument by making a personal attack on me! Chalk up another W for me.
Congrats, you lost the argument by making a personal attack on me! Chalk up another W for me.
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.
That’s not how awards work…?
Congrats on translating that gibberish.
I’ll simplify it 🤡🤡🤡