{"id":748459,"date":"2026-06-20T08:24:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T08:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/748459\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T08:24:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T08:24:14","slug":"latest-on-marlins-rotation-mlb-trade-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/748459\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest On Marlins’ Rotation – MLB Trade Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Marlins could get\u00a0Eury P\u00e9rez<\/a> back from the 15-day injured list as soon as next week. The 6\u20198\u2033 righty tossed 3 2\/3 innings and 51 pitches in a rehab start with Triple-A Jacksonville yesterday. Manager Clayton McCullough told reporters (including Christina De Nicola and Shanthi Sepe-Chepuru of MLB.com<\/a>) that P\u00e9rez will throw a pitch design session in the next few days and may not need another minor league start before he rejoins the MLB rotation.<\/p>\n

P\u00e9rez has made remarkably quick progress since sustaining a right gracilis strain in late May. That initially came with an eight-week timeline that it seems P\u00e9rez will beat by a month. It\u2019ll be a welcome boost to a team that has patched together the last couple rotation spots.\u00a0Janson Junk<\/a> went on the injured list with a shin injury just two days after the Fish lost P\u00e9rez. Those injuries came less than two weeks after rookie starter\u00a0Robby Snelling<\/a> underwent season-ending elbow surgery, while top prospect\u00a0Thomas White<\/a> went down with a shoulder injury in Triple-A.<\/p>\n

Sandy Alcantara<\/a> and\u00a0Max Meyer<\/a> are the only two Miami starters who have held a rotation spot all year. Tyler Phillips<\/a> moved from long relief to the rotation after the P\u00e9rez and Junk injuries. They\u2019ve brought up Ryan Gusto<\/a> to start three games since the beginning of June. Gusto hasn\u2019t completed five innings while struggling to prevent runs in two of his three appearances. He\u2019ll start Sunday\u2019s series finale against the Giants. They\u2019ve used bullpen games, mostly opened by\u00a0Lake Bachar<\/a>, for the fifth rotation spot.<\/p>\n

Junk seems a couple weeks away. Jordan McPherson of The Miami Herald<\/a> writes that the right-hander threw a pitch design session this afternoon and should progress to live batting practice in the coming days. McCullough said he\u2019ll likely need multiple rehab starts before he\u2019s ready for an MLB return.<\/p>\n

Despite the patched together back of the rotation, Miami has played very well of late. Today\u2019s 4-3 win over San Francisco improved them to 12-4 in June, the best record in MLB. They\u2019ve climbed back to .500 at 38-38, pulling within two games of a Wild Card spot. It\u2019s the team\u2019s best effort to change what had seemed a selling trajectory after they finished May at 26-34.<\/p>\n

That places a lot of importance on the team\u2019s play over the next six weeks. Meyer and Alcantara would be two of the better starting pitchers on the trade market if the Marlins made them available. Meyer is arbitration eligible for three seasons after this one, so there\u2019s certainly no urgency. That said, they\u2019ve also traded Jes\u00fas Luzardo<\/a>, Ryan Weathers<\/a> and Edward Cabrera<\/a> with multiple years of remaining control.<\/p>\n

Those were seemingly motivated by injury trepidation, and Meyer\u2019s spotty health history before this season could give the front office pause. It\u2019d be a tougher sell to trade either Meyer or Alcantara, who is controllable for next season via $21MM team option, if they\u2019re still within a couple games of a playoff spot at the end of July.<\/p>\n

In that case, there\u2019d be an argument for Miami to add a back-end arm. Junk or Phillips could move to a swing role if the Fish add a league average starter to slot behind Meyer, Alcantara and P\u00e9rez. Miami\u2019s bullpen has been quietly effective throughout the season but would benefit from a better second left-hander to pair with John King<\/a>\u00a0after they lost\u00a0Andrew Nardi<\/a> to a rib injury.<\/p>\n

The corner infield has been an issue all season, and they should upgrade at least one of those positions as well. The Christopher Morel<\/a> signing hasn\u2019t panned out, leading them to use\u00a0Kyle Stowers<\/a> more frequently at first base. Upgrading there would give them the freedom to put Stowers back into an everyday left field role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Marlins could get\u00a0Eury P\u00e9rez back from the 15-day injured list as soon as next week. The 6\u20198\u2033…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":748460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,52010,359632,591,85],"class_list":["post-748459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-eury-perez","tag-janson-junk","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}