{"id":55086,"date":"2025-08-02T13:50:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T13:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/55086\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T13:50:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T13:50:12","slug":"charlie-morton-zac-gallen-drawing-interest-as-mlb-deadline-nears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/55086\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Morton, Zac Gallen drawing interest as MLB deadline nears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the more coveted starters aren\u2019t having their best years \u2014 including Zac Gallen (5.60 ERA), Charlie Morton (5.48) and Sandy Alcantara (6.66). But with strong track records (and a playoff r\u00e9sum\u00e9 in Morton\u2019s case), plus a weak starter market, all are drawing significant interest.<\/p>\n<p>Gallen and Morton should go somewhere, but with Alcantara under control next year, the Marlins may hold him.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Sox, Mets, Yankees, Astros, Padres and Rays are among possibilities for Morton. <\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.52380952;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36683332\" width=\"899\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Zac-Gallen.jpg\" alt=\"Diamondbacks starter Zac Gallen is drawing interest from other teams as the MLB trade deadline nears.\" class=\"wp-image-36683332\"  \/>Diamondbacks starter Zac Gallen is drawing interest from other teams as the MLB trade deadline nears. Charles LeClaire-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>Edward Cabrera also has another year of control, so there\u2019s no guarantee the Marlins trade him either. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some of the more coveted starters aren\u2019t having their best years \u2014 including Zac Gallen (5.60 ERA), Charlie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[9305,363,15238,99,358,38788],"class_list":{"0":"post-55086","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-charlie-morton","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-mlb-trade-deadline","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-sports-plus","13":"tag-zac-gallen"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}