Sandy Alcantara’s recent struggles | MLB Now

Sandy Alcantara’s recent struggles | MLB Now

First of all the background, contra missed all of last year recovering from Tommy john surgery, but he’s only 29 potentially has two more years under club control. His signature year was 2022 228 innings of a 2.28. Er, a think about that in this day and age 228 innings, serious workload. He won the Cy Young that year. That means the club making a deal for our country will have a former Cy Young award pitcher for his age 29 and 31 seasons Alterra just kicked into the lucrative side of his contract extension as well, but it’s very reasonable. He’s making 17 this year, 17, next year jumps up as a team option on him at $21 million. You’d figure they pick up that option if he’s pitching near his normal capabilities, of course. And think about what that sounds like for a top flight starter if he can get back there. Three years, 55 million, the Dodgers gave Tyler Glass now five years for 100 and 37 Blake Snow, five years for 182 3 for 55. That’s a bargain in Dodger Land. So let’s get to the game. It did not start. Well, first of the game show to that ball is gone. It is show Otan that one. Nothing rather quickly. Later, a contour goes inside on Freddie Freeman did it back to back pitches both 97. He’s got most of his VLO back, but the sequencing not good, his command was off, he was bouncing pitches. He gives up three extra base hits and three runs in the first inning. It leads to a run in the second after an not walk steal another Tsar hernandez double. Then after allowing tons of traffic in the third, he doesn’t make it out of the inning, two and two thirds innings, seven hits, seven runs, five walks. So I hate to go all al lighter on you. Al Light is right there, but check this out, this was something that was showing up last night that’s now backed up by the metrics. Here’s the edge percentage, right? How many pitches are on the edge of the plate in the black around the edges. Competitive pitches? It’s gone from 43 to 4645 and now down to 41 it’s a big drop. The Cy Young season. He’s 46% meatball pitches. It is what it is. Those are pitches in the middle of his own. A meatball up to 8.8. And Then eric Harras mentioned this repeatedly in the Dodgers broadcast last night, we showed it to you right here on MLB Network was watching that game. He kept saying he’s throwing noncompetitive pitches. So hitters did not have to chase again. 34.7% in a cy young year down to 24% right now. 24. It’s a big difference. It’s not just a random bunch of stats that were thrown up there. We’re going to talk to al about this. You can see it on the field. So Contra is not back to his old form. Not as of yet. Here’s his pitching line game by game wasn’t a good showcase. Clearly, that’s a ton of runs hits yet. Five walks, only two strikeouts. He’s only had two starts that were really not good against the Phillies and last night, obviously not great against the Dodgers. Otherwise he’s battled. He’s been ok, seven strikeouts in his season debut, but you have to give him a little bit of time, his vilo more or less there. He started mixing in his sinker change up during the game as it wore on and he could be a very different pitcher we think by July and remember who we’re talking about this from 2019 to 23 5 years before Alcor hurt his elbow. He is in the Rare Air Cole Wheeler Scherzer Altra and Then Max Street. These are the war leaders in that span. So the Marlins are a lot spunkier than they expected to be this year. But they could be best served by continuing their rebuild, turning al Contra into several blue Chippers. If they can do that, they have him under contract for three years this year and two more, they’ll have to be able to wait until a contra regains his market value last night was not

BK digs in on Sandy Alcantara’s recent tough outings on the mound and what the future could look like for him.

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