{"id":401018,"date":"2026-01-10T18:43:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T18:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/401018\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T18:43:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T18:43:07","slug":"latest-on-marlins-rotation-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/401018\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest On Marlins’ Rotation Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"

After months of rumors, the Marlins finally dealt Edward Cabrera<\/a> in a pitching-for-hitting trade, as the right-hander was dealt to the Cubs for a notable three-prospect package headlined by Owen Caissie<\/a>.\u00a0 With Caissie ready to make an impact in Miami\u2019s outfield as early as this season, the Marlins bolstered their lineup at the potential expense of their rotation, though the Fish are perhaps one of the few teams with enough rotation depth to withstand the loss of Cabrera.<\/p>\n

Sandy Alcantara<\/a>, Eury Perez<\/a>, Ryan Weathers<\/a>, Max Meyer<\/a>, and Braxton Garrett<\/a> are tentatively lined up as the starting five, with swingman Janson Junk<\/a> likely the top depth option.\u00a0 Adam Mazur<\/a> and Ryan Gusto<\/a> also have some big league experience, Dax Fulton<\/a> looks to be ready for his MLB debut, and top prospects Thomas White<\/a> and Robby Snelling<\/a> could also both make their first appearance in the Show before 2026 is out.<\/p>\n

Given how this group is long on injury history and mostly short on proven track records, however, a case can certainly be made that Miami could or should add to their starter mix.\u00a0 Kevin Barral of Fish On First<\/a> hears from a source that the Marlins could pursue an innings-eating veteran to add some more stability to the rotation.\u00a0 In the other direction, Ken Rosenthal and Will Sammon of The Athletic<\/a> write that \u201cthe Marlins remain open to further dealing from their rotation for the right return.\u201d<\/p>\n

The latter report doesn\u2019t indicate that such a trade if necessarily likely, and it could just be another example of how president of baseball operations Peter Bendix is broadly open to discussing all offers out of due diligence.\u00a0 Rosenthal and Sammon also note that it is still \u201cunlikely\u201d that Alcantara is traded, echoing multiple reports from throughout the offseason about the Marlins\u2019 lack of appetite in moving the 2022 NL Cy Young Award winner.<\/p>\n

Trading away one of the younger arms for another MLB-ready young hitter could be more plausible if the right offer emerges, plus Miami could need to create some rotation space anyway if the team did bring in a veteran hurler.\u00a0 This hypothetical veteran arm wouldn\u2019t come with a big price tag, as Barral uses the comp of the Marlins\u2019 signing of Cal Quantrill<\/a> to a one-year, $3.5MM deal last winter.\u00a0 Naturally Miami would be looking for better results from its next investment, as Quantrill posted a 5.50 ERA over 109 2\/3 innings before he was put on waivers in August and claimed away by the Braves.<\/p>\n

As one might expect, Bendix didn\u2019t share many hints about adding or subtracting any pitchers when speaking with reporters (including MLB.com\u2019s Christina De Nicola and Jessica Camerato<\/a>) earlier this week.\u00a0 While acknowledging the \u201ccan never have too much pitching\u201d mantra, Bendix feels his team has plenty of internal options already for a spirited rotation battle in Spring Training, with even White or Snelling being candidates to break camp.<\/p>\n

\u201cI definitely don\u2019t have a feel of who the starting five are going to be to open up the season,\u201d Bendix said.\u00a0 \u201cI think there\u2019s opportunity there, there\u2019s a competition there, there\u2019s open space there, there\u2019s a chance for a whole bunch of guys to step up and earn a spot, and there\u2019s nothing that we\u2019re writing off at this point.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After months of rumors, the Marlins finally dealt Edward Cabrera in a pitching-for-hitting trade, as the right-hander was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-401018","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}