{"id":11429,"date":"2025-05-08T19:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T19:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/11429\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T19:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T19:38:11","slug":"sandy-alcantara-could-once-again-complicate-marlins-trade-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/11429\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandy Alcantara could once again complicate Marlins&#8217; trade deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone was figuring the top starting pitcher to move at the deadline <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/04\/10\/sports\/list-of-mlb-pitchers-most-likely-to-be-traded-starts-with-sandy-alcantara\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">would be the great Sandy Alcantara<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But he hasn\u2019t been so great lately, and with Alcantara toting an unsightly 8.42 ERA after two straight beatings by the stacked Dodgers, an Alcantara trade looks iffy now.<\/p>\n<p>Although the Marlins didn\u2019t make him available in winter, with Miami in a deep rebuild and the \u00fcber-talented Alcantara on a reasonable long-term contract \u2014 $17M this year and next plus a $21M option for 2027 with $2M buyout \u2014 it made sense the 2022 Cy Young winner, workhorse and terrific clubhouse guy would go.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"35871168\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/22-miami-marlins-pitches-los-103916133.jpg\" alt=\"Sandy Alcantara is 2-4 with a 8.42 ERA entering Thursday.\" class=\"wp-image-35871168\"  \/>Sandy Alcantara is 2-4 with a 8.42 ERA entering Thursday. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>But while most folks believe Alcantara will eventually regain form in his return from Tommy John surgery \u2013 \u201che\u2019s not that far removed from his Cy Young season,\u201d one rival exec pointed out \u2013 the Marlins can\u2019t afford to sell low yet again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everyone was figuring the top starting pitcher to move at the deadline would be the great Sandy Alcantara.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2395],"tags":[5,1816,778,58,4171,4,3449,25,3480,185,430,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-11429","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-marlins","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-marlins","10":"tag-miami","11":"tag-miami-marlins","12":"tag-miamimarlins","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-mlb-trade-deadline","15":"tag-philadelphia-phillies","16":"tag-sandy-alcantara","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-sports-columnists","19":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114473907392485296","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}