Offishial News: Starting pitching market gets moving. Will Marlins take advantage?

11 hours ago, Slacker Mills said:

Teams will need rotation pieces even more desperately come late spring training. Luzardo, Garrett, Alcantara, and others will be able to demonstrate their effectiveness coming off injury.  If the Twins want to flip Royce Lewis for Luzardo right now, however, I'd make that deal. I'd even throw in Adam Mazur.

Sandy Alcantara has to be the only untouchable on the starting rotation. No team will bite for him coming off TJ surgery. Also, he's owed $17.3 M the next couple of seasons after '25. Eury Perez too could be considered untouchable. I think Royce Lewis has potential to be a player to watch out for if he's given the opportunity to play around 120 games next season. 

I believe it'd be a mistake for us to get rid of Ryan Weathers now. He's not arbitration eligible yet and showed lots of improvement in '24. He dropped his ERA by nearly 3.0, increased his strikeouts, and allowed less walks, all while increasing his workload through innings pitched and allowing less runs. If things go well for him, he could have more wins than losses next season. 

2 hours ago, One Regend said:

If anything, this is the perfect opportunity to shop Braxton Garrett and Jesus Luzardo.  I'm down on Garrett's longterm viability, so selling high on him now makes sense, with arbitration looming for him, and Jesus Luzardo is in his last arb year.

I agree on Braxton Garrett and Jesus Luzardo. If we're out of it by the trade deadline and they're healthy, it would make sense to get a good deal out of them, but my guess would be that Jesus Luzardo gets traded first. Braxton Garrett doesn't have a contract as hefty so I could see the Fish retaining him for another year or two. Luzardo has another 2 years of arbitration left and Garrett has another 4 years left. 

10 hours ago, rurrusuno said:

Sandy Alcantara has to be the only untouchable on the starting rotation. No team will bite for him coming off TJ surgery. Also, he's owed $17.3 M the next couple of seasons after '25. Eury Perez too could be considered untouchable. I think Royce Lewis has potential to be a player to watch out for if he's given the opportunity to play around 120 games next season. 

I believe it'd be a mistake for us to get rid of Ryan Weathers now. He's not arbitration eligible yet and showed lots of improvement in '24. He dropped his ERA by nearly 3.0, increased his strikeouts, and allowed less walks, all while increasing his workload through innings pitched and allowing less runs. If things go well for him, he could have more wins than losses next season. 

I agree on Braxton Garrett and Jesus Luzardo. If we're out of it by the trade deadline and they're healthy, it would make sense to get a good deal out of them, but my guess would be that Jesus Luzardo gets traded first. Braxton Garrett doesn't have a contract as hefty so I could see the Fish retaining him for another year or two. Luzardo has another 2 years of arbitration left and Garrett has another 4 years left. 

I don't agree on Braxton and Luzardo because trading them now is definitely not selling them high. Both had significant injuries last season and Luzardo did not look good when he pitched. They have more questions than answers at the moment.

The Marlins will get the most return from either Weathers or Cabrera, as they are cheaper, younger, and with more pure stuff. Garrett and Luzardo have higher a floor, but also more health concerns. If I have to pick one to trade, I'll go with Weathers because if Eddy doesn't pan out as a starter, he'd be a hell of a closer.

Depending on how the season goes and the injury factor, I'd wait until a few starts from Eury Pérez to trade Luzardo. He should be on the trading block by June/July next season regardless but would be ideal if the Fish could get Eury going before that.