Sandy Alcantara Off To Poor Start, Imperiling Marlins Present, Future
The post Sandy Alcantara Off To Poor Start, Imperiling Marlins Present, Future appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Miami Marlins catcher Agustín Ramírez, left, and starting pitcher Sandy Alcantara talk during a … More baseball game against the Los Angeles Dodgers in Los Angeles, Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Kyusung Gong) Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. No, the Miami Marlins were not one of the majority of MLB clubs entering 2025 with designs on a playoff spot. They were well aware of their lot as non-contenders, and entered the season with an everyday lineup filled with career minor leaguers with limited upside. Ditto their starting rotation, with a couple of major exceptions. Youngster Eury Perez has a fairly extreme ceiling, and is in the midst of rehabbing from Tommy John surgery. By midseason or so, he could be ready to take the ball in major league games that count. Despite a lengthy rehab, he just turned 22. Then there’s recent staff ace and 2022 NL Cy Young winner Sandy Alcantara. He too underwent Tommy John surgery, in October 2023, and at age 29 took the ball on opening day of this season. To put it mildly, things haven’t gone quite as planned in his first six starts. 2-3, 8.31, with an ugly 19/17 K/BB ratio and 26 hits allowed in 26 innings. There’s simply no way to spin those numbers positively, and the eye test has been at least as alarming. A typically insightful “MLB Now” segment the day after his most recent start featuring Al Leiter with host Brian Kenny and Joel Sherman about summed it up – as much as anything else, the sheer volume of non-competitive pitches thrown in his last outing against the mighty Dodgers is cause for concern. So where have we come from, where are we now, and where might we be going with regard to Alcantara? Remember –…
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Miami Marlins catcher Agustín Ramírez, left, and starting pitcher Sandy Alcantara talk during a … More baseball game against the Los Angeles Dodgers in Los Angeles, Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Kyusung Gong) Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. No, the Miami Marlins were not one of the majority of MLB clubs entering 2025 with designs on a playoff spot. They were well aware of their lot as non-contenders, and entered the season with an everyday lineup filled with career minor leaguers with limited upside. Ditto their starting rotation, with a couple of major exceptions. Youngster Eury Perez has a fairly extreme ceiling, and is in the midst of rehabbing from Tommy John surgery. By midseason or so, he could be ready to take the ball in major league games that count. Despite a lengthy rehab, he just turned 22. Then there’s recent staff ace and 2022 NL Cy Young winner Sandy Alcantara. He too underwent Tommy John surgery, in October 2023, and at age 29 took the ball on opening day of this season. To put it mildly, things haven’t gone quite as planned in his first six starts. 2-3, 8.31, with an ugly 19/17 K/BB ratio and 26 hits allowed in 26 innings. There’s simply no way to spin those numbers positively, and the eye test has been at least as alarming. A typically insightful “MLB Now” segment the day after his most recent start featuring Al Leiter with host Brian Kenny and Joel Sherman about summed it up – as much as anything else, the sheer volume of non-competitive pitches thrown in his last outing against the mighty Dodgers is cause for concern. So where have we come from, where are we now, and where might we be going with regard to Alcantara? Remember –…
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