{"id":29312,"date":"2025-02-28T01:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T01:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=29312"},"modified":"2025-02-28T01:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T01:59:08","slug":"report-red-sox-expected-to-trade-for-former-nl-cy-young-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=29312","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: Red Sox Expected to Trade for Former NL Cy Young Winner!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\" class=\"wp-caption \">\n<div class=\"h-responsive\">\n<figure class=\"h-responsive__inner\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-featured-image size-featured-image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Sandy-Alcantara.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Sandy-Alcantara.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Sandy-Alcantara.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Sandy-Alcantara.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"520\" data-img-load-time=\"901\" data-dom-ready-time=\"1027\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption-credit\">Getty<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-post-image-caption-text\">JUPITER, FLORIDA &#8211; FEBRUARY 19: Sandy Alcantara #22 of the Miami Marlins poses for a portrait at Roger Dean Stadium on February 19, 2025 in Jupiter, Florida. (Photo by Carmen Mandato\/Getty Images)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The\u00a0Boston Red Sox\u00a0revamped their starting rotation this offseason,\u00a0adding\u00a0the likes of 2024 AL All-Star Garrett Crochet\u00a0and\u00a0two-time NL All-Star Walker Buehler.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the Red Sox are being connected to 2022 NL Cy Young Award winner and two-time All-Star Sandy Alcantara.<\/p>\n<p>In a piece\u00a0posted on Thursday, Bleacher Report\u2019s Kerry Miller attempted \u201cPredicting Where Top Players Involved in MLB Trade Rumors Will Finish \u201925 Season.\u201d Among the top players likely to be moved, according to Miller, is the\u00a0Miami Marlins\u2018 top starter.<\/p>\n<p>After making 14 appearances (six starts) during the 2017 and 2018 seasons combined with the St. Louis Cardinals and then Marlins, the Dominican broke out in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Despite going 6-14 that year, Alcantara finished with a strong 3.88 ERA and made his first Midsummer Classic. Alcantara then was solid for the pandemic-shortened 2020 campaign and was even better in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Due in large part to playing for a brutal team, he finished just 9-15, but also recorded a 3.19 ERA, 1.07 WHIP and 201 strikeouts. Alcantara\u2019s solid peripheral numbers finally resulted in more wins in his Cy Young season, as he went 14-9 with a 2.28 ERA, 0.98 WHIP and 207 strikeouts (all career bests), plus a league-leading six complete games (one shutout) and 228 2\/3 innings pitched.<\/p>\n<p>He made his second All-Star team in 2022 and led the senior circuit in Wins Above Replacement (WAR) for a pitcher as well (8.0).<\/p>\n<p>Alcantara regressed in 2023, going 7-12 with a 4.14 ERA, 1.21 WHIP and was shut down that September with a forearm injury. He underwent Tommy John surgery and missed the entire 2024 season but is looking to bounce back in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Miami Marlins were adamant from the outset that they had no intentions of trading away Sandy Alc\u00e1ntara this offseason, and they have thus far stuck by that. However, we\u2019re all kind of expecting it to happen before this summer\u2019s trade deadline,\u201d Miller wrote. \u201cThey probably just outright told people they wouldn\u2019t be trading him now because they didn\u2019t feel like dealing with lowball offers for a recent Cy Young winner who is coming off an even more recent Tommy John surgery, instead hoping he can reassert his dominance over the first few months of the 2025 campaign and be worth more in July than he would\u2019ve been in January.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>There\u2019s a \u2018Good Chance (Alcantara\u2019s) on The Move This Summer\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>Alcantara is under team control in Miami through 2027, after inking a five-year, $56 million extension in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Most of that money is set to come off the books in these last three seasons of the contract, however, with the 29-year-old set to earn $17.3 million in 2025 and 2026, before a $21 million club option comes into play in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd if he does perform in the first half of 2025 like he did for most of 2022, hoo boy, the bidding war will be fierce for what would at that point be 2.33 seasons of his services at an overall dollar cost of $44 (million)\u201d Miller wrote. \u201cAt the rate that starting pitchers are going for in free agency these days, 2.33 years of Alc\u00e1ntara would cost nearly double that. For that percentage of the Corbin Burnes and Blake Snell contracts signed this winter, you\u2019re talking ($81.5 million-$84.8 million.) For that type of discount, you can bet teams would be willing to part with some serious prospect capital.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With a \u201cBig Three\u201d including Kristian Campbell, Marcelo Mayer and Roman Anthony, Boston has one of the deepest and most talented pools of prospects in baseball. If the Red Sox are willing to part with any of the trio, they could be a frontrunner for Alcantara, if he hits the trade market this season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, if (Alcantara) struggles or if the Marlins are a contender \u2014 one of those scenarios is substantially likelier than the other \u2014 that changes things,\u201d the Bleacher Report scribe said. \u201cBut there\u2019s a good chance he\u2019s on the move this summer to a team with A) multiple top-100 prospects, B) reasonable hope for a World Series within the next three years and C) at least some degree of disposable income.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Other Teams Have Been Linked to Alcantara<\/h2>\n<p>Even if the ace in South Beach does end up in trade rumors over the summer and the Red Sox remain a contender, they may have competition for his services.<\/p>\n<p>Among the other teams that have been connected to Alcantara this winter include the\u00a0Los Angeles Dodgers\u00a0and\u00a0New York Mets.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles\u2019 starting rotation (and its entire roster) is an embarrassment of riches, featuring two-time Cy Young Award winner Blake Snell, Japanese superstar Roki Sasaki, 2024 All-Star Tyler Glasnow, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Shohei Ohtani (once he returns to the mound). Who\u2019s to say the \u201cEvil Empire\u201d is done in its quest to become the first back-to-back World Series champion in\u00a0more than two decades, however?<\/p>\n<p>During December\u2019s Winter Meetings, MLB Network\u2019s Greg Amsinger\u00a0predicted that Alcantara would get dealt to Los Angeles, and while that didn\u2019t happen, don\u2019t count the Dodgers out.<\/p>\n<p>In Queens, the Mets have one of the most loaded lineups with a core of Francisco Lindor, Juan Soto and Pete Alonso, but their starting rotation\u00a0lacks a clear ace. Having spent nearly his entire career in the NL East, Alcantara has plenty of experience pitching at Citi Field and solid numbers as well.<\/p>\n<p>In eight games at the Mets\u2019 home ballpark, the righty has limited batters to a .219\/.271\/.357 slash line across 211 plate appearances.<\/p>\n<p>However things play out in 2025, Alcantara\u2019s name will likely be one of the top pitchers involved in trade rumors yet again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getty JUPITER, FLORIDA &#8211; FEBRUARY 19: Sandy Alcantara #22 of the Miami Marlins poses for a portrait at Roger Dean Stadium on February 19, 2025 in Jupiter,&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hot-news","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>REPORT: Red Sox Expected to Trade for Former NL Cy Young Winner! 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