{"id":629608,"date":"2026-05-07T20:58:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T20:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/629608\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T20:58:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T20:58:16","slug":"the-athletic-zac-gallen-a-trade-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/629608\/","title":{"rendered":"The Athletic: Zac Gallen a trade candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Athletic\u2019s Jim Bowden listed Diamondbacks pitcher Zac Gallen as a candidate to be dealt at the trade deadline.<\/p>\n

Gallen, 30, returned to the Diamondbacks<\/a> in the offseason on a one-year deal at $16.9 million but has struggled in his seven starts in 2026, posting a 4.45 ERA and 1.52 WHIP.<\/p>\n

Batters are hitting .302 against Gallen this season, and he has given up 11 extra-base hits.<\/p>\n

So far, he\u2019s looked more like 2025 Zac Gallen than the Cy Young contender version. However, Gallen has been a reliable workhorse throughout his career, even when he hasn\u2019t been at his most effective. Since he\u2019ll be a free agent again at the end of this year, teams are going to be scouting him closely ahead of the trade deadline.<\/p>\n

Gallen struggled for much of last season and did not sign until mid-February. He made 33 starts and had a 4.83 ERA and 1.26 WHIP.<\/p>\n

He has been able to stay healthy, however, and shown he can eat up innings.<\/p>\n

Entering this season, the right-hander ranked third in innings pitched in MLB over the past four seasons and was second in wins, only behind Framber Valdez.<\/p>\n

Since arriving in Arizona in a 2019 deal that sent Jazz Chisholm Jr. to the Miami Marlins, Gallen ranks third in franchise history<\/a> in innings (1,003.1), third in starts (176), fourth in bWAR for pitchers (19.6) and fifth in win probability added (8.4).\n <\/p>\n


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David Veenstra is a web content editor and writer for arizonasports.com and KTAR.com. He also founded Desert Wave Media, an independent outlet which covers the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury. Prior to joining Arizona Sports and KTAR, he graduated from the University of Oregon for his bachelor\u2019s degree in journalism and Arizona State University for his master\u2019s degree in sports journalism. He previously covered track and field, where he reported live from the NCAA Championships and World Athletics Championships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Athletic\u2019s Jim Bowden listed Diamondbacks pitcher Zac Gallen as a candidate to be dealt at the trade…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-629608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629608","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=629608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}