What is happening. Welcome to the PlusPitch Podcast. Morning Pitching Podcast from Pitcher List.com. My name is Nick Pollock.

And today we're going to talk about the Miami Marlins. All right. So this team has lost a lot of their starters.

They traded away Edward Cabrera. They traded away Ryan Weathers. They still have two main guys at the top.

But then we don't really know who is going to fill out that rotation.

There are some very interesting arms.

You might not believe it.

But there are some, especially in the prospect realm.

We're talking about all of those.

But before, we got to talk about the one and only Sandy Alcantara.

And if you know me and pitcher list, I have been a huge Sandy Alcantara fan since 2020.

And he had that amazing Sanyang season in 2022.

And we haven't quite seen him hit that level again.

Now, last year in his first full season back from Tommy John, let me tell you, it was a full season.

The Marlins just did not care about him coming back from Tommy John as we thought they would. He let him just go throughout the year, pitch deep into games.

Our assumption is that what the Marlins would do is trade him away in the off season because

they didn't care of the of the ramifications of pitching as deep, but he's still here.

And to keep in mind that you likely will see Sandy on another team in the second half of the year.

But in the first half, he's still here in the Marlins.

And what we saw in the final two months of the season was a better four-seamer and a better change-up.

In 2023, the last time that Sandy had a successful season, because 24, we all know,

was not very good, Tommy John. And then last year was only good for those last two months.

What Sandy does when he's cooking is he has a four seamer that earns a lot of whips. Back then,

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