Alcantara makes her message to Marlins clear: “I want to be here”

In its last opening before the deadline for changes this Thursday, Sandy Alcántara He did absolutely everything that a team interested in his services wanted. The right was dominant and healthy in its five innings in the white work in the victory of the Miami Marlins 5-0 about Cardinals of San Luis Tuesday night at Busch Stadium.

However, auditioning for other combined is not something that was in the mind of the winner of the Cy Young Prize of the National League in 2022, which submitted red birds that signed the professional from the Dominican Republic, before changing it to the fish in December 2017 in a transaction that led to its compatriot Marcell Ozuna to San Luis.

“There is nothing in my mind at this time,” the arm said in statements for the official portal of his club. “Everyone knows, my colleagues, my coaches, my family and myself, that I want to be here. But if something happens tonight, tomorrow, I don’t know when I pass. I can only control what I can control. Go out every five days in Miami or wherever. I don’t know,” he added.

While the return of the Quequeyano after the operation Tommy John has had many high and low, as reflected in its effectiveness of 6.66, which was the second highest among 80 pitchers of the large tent with at least 100 tickets worked until Tuesday, it has now registered 14 consecutive episodes in white since last July 18.

Contractual situation

Thanks to this, already his pedigree of Cy Young, Alcántara remains one of the most popular names to the deadline of changes on Thursday at 6:00 pm El right hand, which will turn 30 years of age on September 7, plans to collect 17.3 million dollars in 2026 and has an option for $ 21 million by 2027, with an exit clause of $ 2 million.

“First, he is a great person,” manager Clayton McCullough said. “It is incredibly humble. I think that what has happened this year, which has been well documented, has not been the beginning of the season I would have wanted, but remains there, trying to solve the problems between their openings.”