Trade Deadline Recap! Miami Marlins Trade Jesus Sanchez, HOLD Everyone Else

Trade Deadline Recap! Miami Marlins Trade Jesus Sanchez, HOLD Everyone Else

On deadline day, the only move the Marlins made was trading Jesus Sanchez to the Astros. They kept everybody else. You are Locked on Marlins, your daily podcast on the Miami Marlins, part of the Locked on Podcast Network, your team every day. Welcome into Locked On Marlins. I’m your host, Jeremiah Guyger. I’ve been a diehard Marlins fan since I was 12 years old and I’ve podcasted about the team for the last four seasons. You can find me on XJer 2 and thank you for making Locked on Marlins your first listen of the day. It’s part of the Locked on Podcast Network which is your team every day. Don’t forget to hit subscribe on the YouTube channel and let me know your thoughts in the comments section. And today’s episode is brought to you by 5Hour Energy Transfusion. Go to 5our energergy.com today and use my promo code locked ongolf to receive 20% off your order. Only valid through September 30th. Order transfusionflavored 5hour energy shots today. The trade deadline has come and gone. That’s all she wrote. And on deadline day, the only move the Marlins made was trading Jesus Sanchez to the Houston Astros. everybody else they kept, including Sandy Alcantara and Edward Cabrera. I I’m a little bit surprised at how this deadline went. If you’ve been watching the show for the last week, you’ve you’ve heard me talk about potential Sandy Alcantara trades, Edward Cabrera trades, and they didn’t. And I love it. This team is not trading Sandy and Cabrera for pennies on the dollar. They’re not going to sell low on them. They held their ground and now I look ahead to 2026 and well, let me I’m getting ahead of myself here. The rest of 2025, the Marlins are seven games out of a wild card. You never know what can happen. And you have Sandy who’s pitched backtoback outings without giving up a run or an earned run rather. You have Edward Cabera who’s been awesome. You move Jesus Sanchez. I’m going to talk about the return in a little bit. Jacob Marcy’s major league ready. You don’t trade any of the bullpen pieces. This team essentially is going to be the same the rest of the of the season as they have been the last month and a half where they’ve been the hottest team in baseball. The odds are low and I get that. But when you have a chance to go for it, and you know, as Marlins fans, we’ve only seen two playoff appearances since 2020 or 2003, then you never know. And I I’m going to be very vocal of this. Keeping Sandy and keeping Cabrera is a statement to the fan base and it’s also a statement that we’re not going to just trade to trade. I hate that concept. Trading away guys just to trade them. We’ve talked about the value of Sandy Alcantara and how it might have been diminished because of his struggles this season and that if they were going to trade him, I wanted to see a huge haul in return. Same with Edward Cabrera who has three years remaining remaining on his contract. He has three more years of team control and they’re keeping them. So, why not see See what happens the rest of the way. You play the games for a reason. Baseball isn’t played on paper. I I’m pleasantly surprised that Cabrera and Alcantra are both staying. If if you would have asked me this morning, I would have told you that one of them at least is is going to go. I That’s what I assumed. I just thought it was going to be a foregone conclusion that there was going to be a trade involved with the Marlins and one of their ace pitchers, but they’re staying in Miami. We do though have to say goodbye to Jesus Sanchez. Jesus Sanchez was the longest tenur Marlins position player. He was acquired from Tampa Bay before 2020, I believe in 2019. the trade deadline of 2019 and he he’s been a Marlin for a while. He’s provided a lot of great memories for the Marlins fans, but it was time for him and the Marlins to part ways. That felt inevitable heading into deadline day. It was just a matter of time. And sure enough, he gets moved to the Houston Astros for a pretty decent return. All all things considered, the Marlins get right-handed pitcher Ryan Gusto, who’s in the major leagues right now, and then minor leaguers Chase Jorski, who’s an infielder, an outfielder, Esme Valencia. So, Ryan Gust this season, 24 games, 14 starts. He has an erra of 4.92. His fifth though is lower at 4.11. 86 innings, 87 strikeouts. What I like is the four seam fast ball. He throws it almost half the time. He has a lot of different pitches, but really relies on that four seamer. Has it has good life, 18.2 in of induced vert vertical break on average, and opponents are hitting just 210 against the pitch. So, he’s got a solid four seamer and he has a lot of other pitches including, you know, a slider, a cutter, a sinker, Daniel Moscus, Bill Hazel, the Marlins pitching development staff. They’re going to get him in in the building and get to work with Ryan Gusto. In the meantime, you have a hole in your outfield that I expect to be filled very quickly by Jacob Marcy, who’s clearly major league ready. So, in my opinion, this is a very good trade for the Marlins. Again, Jesus Sanchez leaving is bittersweet. I’m always going to root for Sanchez. I think he’s a really funny guy who just loves playing the game and loves having fun. And now he’s in Houston. He’s going to a contender. I’m by no means an Astros fan, but I’m going to be rooting for Jesus Sanchez anytime he’s at the plate. and he’s going back to Miami. So on Monday, the Astros are coming to Lone Depot Park for a series against the Fish and we’ll get to say see Jesus Sanchez in his old stomping grounds again. Coming up next though, I’m going to talk about what the Marlins didn’t do. They didn’t trade any relievers and they failed to move Calantrol. I’m going to discuss that right after this. Time to fuel up and turn it up with 5hour energy transfusion. 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And it felt like as a cheap rental there would be a pitching needy team that took a chance on him. In the month of July, he had an erra under three. 2.92 across five starts, 24/3 innings, 21 strikeouts. very efficient month of July for Cal Quantrol, but he stays a Marlin. And it doesn’t really make sense to me. What I can think of that probably happened was that the Marlins were trying to move Quantrol. I I don’t think they just sat back on their heels and and didn’t take any calls or didn’t approach other teams with potential offers. I just think it didn’t get done. I mean, I was refreshing Twitter all day long for any rumors uh for for all the teams. I mean, you you had non-stop rumors here, rumors there, speculation, trades coming at you left and right. I kept waiting for ones with the Marlins, mainly for Sandy and Eddie because that those were the biggest trade ships, but also I heard nothing about Calantrol. I know the Red Sox were trying to get Joe Ryan. They settled at the last minute to get Dustin May from the Dodgers. So, I just think the Marlins didn’t get something done. They I it’s it’s a little bit of a headscratcher because of how well Quantrol has pitched recently and being a rental on a cheap deal. It felt like the Marlins could have could have accepted any deal and it would have been a win. But the front offices, they couldn’t get something done. The other aspect of the deadline that I’m that I’m surprised by is that the Marlins didn’t trade any relief pitching. So yesterday we saw the how the relief market was shaping up. Tyler Rogers from the Giants goes to the Mets for three players including two of the Mets prospects, Blake Tidwell and Drew Gilbert. It looked like a clear overpay by New York. And that’s when I said, I mean, this market is a seller is a sellers market, number one. And number two, especially for relief pitching. And so Anthony Bender and Ronnie Enriquez were definitely on the table in my mind for any potential deals. Bender in particular, I assumed Bender would be traded. I did not expect Bender to be here after 6 PM Eastern time. And he is Ronnie Enriquez. He has he has much more control than Bender and there wasn’t pressure to trade him. It it’s different than last season in which the Marlins had Tanner Scott on an expiring deal and he was the the premium rental of the deadline for relief pitchers. They moved him at the last minute. They did not move any other arms. No, nobody. Not one arm in particular. Did the Was there a big target for a relief pitcher on the Marlins like last year? Probably not. Enriquez, I mean, he was leading the major or the National League in strikeouts for relievers. I thought possibly he could have been moved. I thought Bender for sure would have been moved. And then you go back down the list, you have Lake Bocker, you you have Calvin Foscher, kind of me not mediocre, but lesser known, lesser commodities for for other teams. So I I don’t know again what the thought process with the Marlins was with keeping all of the relievers. I certainly would have tried to get something done there. They got something done with Jesus Sanchez and Nick Forez. That was it. Sandy and Edward Cabrera stay. And I I’m I’m so happy Sandy Alcantara is still a Marlin. And Edward Cabera, I said this on the show earlier. I wanted Edward Cabrera to stay a Marlin more than I wanted Sandy Alcantara. If they were going to trade one or the other, I wanted them to trade Sandy. It still would have hurt. They I still want them to go out and be smart and get the best possible deal. And I’m trusting Bendix that at this point in time, there was no offer that he could have justified moving either Cabrera or Sandy for. And if you’re a Marlins fan, you should be you should be happy with that. You don’t sell low. I I like to think that he looked at the Jesus Lazardo situation from a year ago and did not want the same fiasco to happen where you wait too long to trade somebody. when you do trade them, it does it it it’s not worth it. And that’s what with Sandy Alcantara, it’s almost a reverse situation where you kept Sandy after the injury, let him prove himself, but the issue was the performance didn’t back anything up and the value was was tainted. it diminished. And although he Sandy pitched well the last couple of games, I don’t think it was enough around Major League Baseball to to warrant the Marlins trading him. The Red Sox, the Yankees, they weren’t going to pay top dollar for Sandy Alcantra. And Peter Bendix said, “Okay, then you’re not getting Sandy. It’s as simple as that.” And with Edward Cabrera, there’s lots of rumors about the Cubs. Yesterday, the Cubs got Mike Sarroka from the Nationals and that felt like a fallback plan if they couldn’t get a premium starter. The Cubs have a really nice farm system. The Cubs didn’t want to pay top dollar for Cabrera or Sandy. I I said Owen Casey, Jackson Wiggins, you give us those two prospects, then we then we might have a scenario in which we can get something done. And it looks like the Cubs were unwilling to do that because at the end of the day, Cabrera is a Marlin and Sandy’s a Marlin. And what that means for the rest of the season is that you have a rotation spearheaded by Yuri Perez, Sandy Alcantra, Edward Cabrera. None of them are gone. They’re all here. And hopefully for 2026, you get a potential callup in Robbie Snelling. You see what Ryan Gusto has. I mean, let’s go. Let’s go. This team, they’re seven games back of the wild card. They’re three games under 500. The teams ahead of them include the Padres’s who who currently hold the final spot and the Padres’s went crazy this trade deadline. Literally trading everybody in their farm system. It felt like you have the Reds, you have the Cardinals who you just won a series against. You have the Giants who weren’t buyers. They were soft sellers. I describe them as kind of like the Marlins. The same almost the same record. They’re right there neck and neck. Is it likely? No. But who cares? This is baseball. Go out and see what happens. Coming up next, I’m going to wrap up my thoughts on the 2025 deadline. Take a look around the league and then for the Marlins. Wrap up my thoughts on the Marlins. give you a letter grade of how they did this deadline and talk about what to expect as the season continues rolling post deadline that’s coming up right after this. Hit that subscribe button on the YouTube channel if you haven’t already and discuss in the comments section. Let me know your thoughts on how the deadline went. It was a surprising trade deadline for the Marlins. I expected them to be much more active than they were, but I’m not necessarily disappointed by it. I think the Marlins letter grade for this deadline was a solid B. And I’m not going to give them an A because I would have wanted them to see I would have wanted them to move Quantrol and at least one or two relievers because I think relievers are expendable. But I think it’s solid because you did well in the Jesus Sanchez trade and you also kept Sandy Alcantara and Edward Cobrera. They’re not going anywhere. Your rotation is still intact. you you didn’t you didn’t break everything apart and potentially you have you have the horses to make a run. Now people are going to say, “Well, if they’re if they if they’re going to make a run, well then shouldn’t they have been buyers?” No, you’re not going to go out and necessarily buy when you’re under 500. But what you can do is soft sell. Believe in the core that you have. Believe in the players and how they’re playing over the last month and a half when the Marlins have one of the best records, if not the best record in all of baseball and stay the course. And that’s what they’re doing. They made one move. I look at it as a lateral move. Sanchez leaves, Marcy comes up. Nick Forez leaves. You have you have two catchers already, Liam Hicks and Augustine Ramirez. Joe Mack is is still in TripleA. So what the Marlins did, they just didn’t break it apart. They they believe in what they have on the field enough and and and they don’t want to sell low on their players. That’s really what it comes down to. I will admit it’s a headscratcher that not one reliever was traded. I don’t know why they couldn’t move Quantrol. Maybe we get some more clarity on that in the future, but as of right now, if you’re a Marlins fan, buckle up. The trade deadline’s over. No more speculation. Sandy Alcantra is here for the for for right now. Maybe he gets moved in the offseason. It doesn’t matter. That’s not what we’re focused on right now. We’re focused on playing baseball. Edward Cabrera, three years of control. You didn’t have to move him. People will will say, “Well, they they had to move Cabera. His value is at its highest.” You know what that tells me? They believe in Edward Cabera, and they’re in no rush to move him because the turnaround’s real. this breakout year. It’s It’s not pixie dust. It’s It’s not gonna fl away. It’s here to stay. And he’s pitching like an ace. And I can’t I can’t help but think looking at ahead to 2026, if you keep Sandy Alcantara and Cabrera and of course the off season, the winter meetings, that’s that’s going to be a a whole another ordeal. Then you have a three-headed monster. around the deadline. I wanted to talk about the Padres’s for a second. I know this is a Marlins podcast, but I I would be remiss if I wrap this up without discussing how much of a madman AJ Pller is, the general manager for the Padres’s. He disintegrated the farm system trading for Mason Miller, Ramon Lauraniano, JP Sears in the Mason Miller trade. Their top prospect who was viewed as untouchable among many people, Leo Dere traded to the A’s for a closer, Mason Miller. He went he’s going all out. He’s going all out to win the World Series this year. And if you’re a Padres’s, uh, if you’re the Padres’s, you got to, you don’t really have a choice. It’s World Series or Bust with the amount of talent you gave up. Those are buyers. That’s the team the Marlins are chasing, by the way, for that final wild card spot. The Padres’s were buyers. The Marlins were not. The Marlins were never going to sell off all their prospects, and I don’t think they were ever going to do a complete tearown as well. They did that last year. You you got players back in the deal in the deals you made last year. Kyle Sters, Augustine Ramirez, and those players are contributing now every day for the Marlins. You’ve surpassed expectations. Now you’re at 52 and 55. You’re seven games out of the wild card. So, it doesn’t make sense to go out and buy, but it does make sense to hold and to not break something apart. They didn’t they didn’t go out and rip everything to shreds again because that’s that’s what the feeling would have been if Cabrera and Sanchez and Sandy and Enriquez all got traded. That’s a full sale right there. Especially with Cabrera. Cabrera has three more years of control. I don’t know why people keep saying trade Cabrera now. Do you believe in him or do you not? Is he injuryprone? He has been, but he’s been healthy for the most part this season. And don’t you think that Peter Bendix and the Marlins front office knows this already? Don’t you think that if they truly believed Cabrera is is is fool’s gold that they would have moved him or been more aggressive in potentially moving him this deadline, but they didn’t. I want to read this from Craig Mish who tweeted this out right when the trade deadline was ending. He said, pulled it up here. I had the wrong tweet pulled up, but he was talking about how the Marlins aren’t trading anybody else. And I I like what he said. Marlins are holding everyone else. They are the hottest team in baseball and seven games back of the wild card. They have decided to give it a go and see if they can stay in the race. Yankees in town this weekend and expectation is all three games will be close to or sold out. It’s a huge series for the Marlins because postseason baseball is awesome. And when you still have your core after the deadline and you don’t have major holes in your rotation like the Marlins don’t have now, they didn’t trade Sandy or Eddie. Then I can envision this team going on a run. Who’s to say they can’t? I like what Peter Bendix has done. I would have moved the reliever. I would have moved Quantrol. But now that I’m sitting here and thinking about it, maybe the reason they kept Quantrol was they view him as as valuable for what they’re trying to do and they’re they’re trying to win now. Sure, they’re they didn’t go out and buy. They’re not going to break apart the farm, but you never know what can happen. Wouldn’t it be awesome if this team gets continues playing hot and sneaks into the playoffs? Wouldn’t that be crazy? How awesome would that be? I’d be ecstatic. And I’m going to be watching every single game as if the Marlins are trying to get into the playoffs, which they are. Don’t tell me that the players don’t believe. Don’t tell me that clubhouse doesn’t believe they can make a run and they have what it takes. Cuz I don’t care what anybody else says. As long as the games are being played and you got three bases and home plate, four balls is a is a walk, three strikes, you’re out. Then anything can happen. You didn’t sell low. You held your ground. You moved two players in the last week. I would never have expected this to be the case with the Marlins team that was projected to sell at the deadline. It feels different to me. It feels like there’s a true sense of belief now in the players that they have and that this team is closer than than people think they are. That Marlins fans think they are. Nobody would have expected this when when the Marlins lost a 100 games a year ago that they’re going to come into the trade deadline, hold their ground, not sell on on on Alcantara because coming into the season, you you want to know the biggest storyline of the Marlins, it wasn’t Kyle Sters, it wasn’t Augustine Ramirez, it was what will the Marlins get back for Alcantra? I’ll tell you what they got back. They got back Sandy Alcantra because he is a Marla. He’s a franchise pitcher. He’s an ace and he’s staying in Miami. El Cabayo Cabrera, he’s been here a long time. He’s struggled. He’s shown flashes of potential. And he’s put it all together. And I love watching him pitch. and I’m gonna continue to enjoy each and every start that he has. Yuri Perez, Sandy Cabrera, that’s nasty. That’s a that’s a real good trio of pitchers right there. Calantrol with an erra under three. Don’t sleep on Quantrol now. Maybe there’s a reason the Marlins didn’t move him. I’m I’m just saying. Jesus Sanchez, I wish nothing but the best for. There’s so many pictures out there of Sanchez just doing hilarious things and being goofy. He’s a funny guy. All in all, guys, a surprising deadline, but I’m going to walk away from it excited for what’s next this season. Got the Yankees coming to town. Shock the world. Till next time, guys. Stay safe, stay locked on, and let’s go.

The only move the Miami Marlins made on deadline day was trading Jesus Sanchez to the Houston Astros. They kept Sandy Alcantara and Edward Cabrera!

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