Dodgers Rumors: Dodgers “Lurking” Sandy Alcántara’s Trade Market, Per Nightengale
LOS ANGELES, CA— The 2025 Major League Baseball Trade Deadline is more than a month away, but the Los Angeles Dodgers are bound to be flooded with numerous trade rumors as that July 31st date inches closer.
However, with the Dodgers having a Major League-high fourteen players on the injured list, along with starting another league-leading fourteen different players in a game this season, a number that will increase this week when Shohei Ohtani and Emmet Sheehan take the mound, their need this season will likely be pitching above all else.
Unfortunately for Los Angeles, the pitching market will be thin this deadline, meaning Andrew Friedman and Co. will have to get creative if they want to make improvements to the roster before October.
Well, according the Major League Baseball insider Bob Nightengale of USA Today Sports the Dodgers are “lurking” in the market for 2022 National League Cy Young Award winner Sandy Alcántara from the Miami Marlins.
Miami Marlins ace Sandy Alcantara is starting to look like himself again after undergoing Tommy John surgery, with his fastball (97.6-mph) and command returning just in time to get traded. Alcantara, who’s yielding a 1.50 ERA in his last two starts compared to 8.47 in his first 11 starts, should be the No. 1 trade piece on the market. The Dodgers, who have plenty of prospects, are one of the teams lurking.
If the Arizona Diamondbacks decide not to sell this deadline Sandy Alcántara will be the top arm available and the Marlins who are currently last place in the National League East with a 28-41 record in the midst of yet another rebuild will look to get some return for Sandy with the right-handed being in the final two years of his original 5-year, $56 million contract.
Alcántara missed the entire 2024 season after undergoing Tommy John surgery, and in his first season back, the results have been mixed.
While the righty has shown that his arm is healthy, hitting the high 90s with his signature fastball, Alcántara currently has a 7.14 in sixty-one innings pitched this season, and the advanced metrics are not kind to him either, ranking in the bottom percentile in most pitching metrics.
Despite that performance, the Dodgers and other teams around the league could see immense value as Alcántara is under team control until 2026 with a $21 million club option for the 2027 season.
The Dodgers’ starting rotation currently ranks in the bottom third in ERA, WHIP, Runs, and innings pitched this season, and while Tyler Glasnow, Blake Snell, and others are expected to return at some point in the second half, nothing is ever certain.
Have you subscribed to the Bleed Los Podcast YouTube channel? Be sure to ring the notification bell to watch player interviews, participate in shows & promotions, and stay up to date on all Dodgers news and rumors
