The Marlins have shown interest in free agent lefty Patrick Sandoval, reports Kevin Barral of Fish On First.
Miami’s rotation has three arms locked into rotation spots: Sandy Alcantara, Eury Pérez and Max Meyer. The final two spots, at present, are filled by swingmen Janson Junk, Ryan Gusto and Tyler Phillips. Top prospects Thomas White and Robby Snelling are effectively ready for big league looks — at least once they’re healthy. Snelling underwent UCL surgery last May just a few starts into his promising young career. White’s season ended in June after he suffered a capsule sprain in his left shoulder.
Meyer and Pérez both missed time due to injuries in 2026 as well. Given the level of injury risk and lack of back-end stability in the Miami rotation, adding some reinforcements is a natural goal. Sandoval, 30, is coming off a lackluster performance in his first season back from Tommy John surgery. He pitched in 15 games (13 of them starts) and tossed 70 1/3 innings with a 5.12 ERA, 22.7% strikeout rate, 10% walk rate and 37.8% ground-ball rate.
Though the surface-level numbers aren’t great, there’s reason for some optimism. Sandoval’s four-seamer sat 93.4 mph in his return — a slight tick up from his career levels. He’s never allowed much hard contact and continued that trend in ’26; opponents averaged just 87.5 mph off the bat against him and recorded only a 34.5% hard-hit rate. At least a portion of Sandoval’s 2026 struggles can be attributed to an enormous .382 average on balls in play — nearly 100 points higher than the league average and 78 points higher than the career mark he carried into the season. Metrics like SIERA (4.29 and FIP (3.77) feel his performance was better than his earned run average would suggest.
There’s a bit of upside in Sandoval, who from 2021-23 notched a 3.53 ERA, 22.6% strikeout rate and 10.3% walk rate in 380 1/3 innings for the Angels. However, coming off a rocky 2026 showing, he’s not likely to command more than a one- or two-year deal. That fits with the Marlins’ typically frugal spending patterns, although in order to sign Sandoval, they’d probably need to spend a bit more heavily than they have on starting pitching in recent years.
As MLBTR’s Contract Tracker shows, Miami has only signed three free agent starters to major league contracts since Bruce Sherman purchased the team from Jeffrey Loria back in 2017: Chris Paddack ($4MM), Cal Quantrill ($3.5MM) and Johnny Cueto ($8.5MM). All three were one-year contracts. Sandoval isn’t going to break the bank, but he’ll certainly command more than Paddack/Quantrill and will likely out-earn Cueto as well.
At the moment, Alcantara is the only player the Marlins have signed to a guaranteed contract for the 2027 season. Pérez, Meyer, Otto Lopez, Xavier Edwards, Kyle Stowers, Anthony Bender, Calvin Faucher, Victor Vodnik and Esteury Ruiz are all eligible for arbitration. There’s plenty of room for whatever free agent and/or trade targets the Fish identify. Miami finished the season with an $83MM payroll (Payroll Tracker link) — second-lowest in Major League Baseball. They haven’t opened the season with a payroll north of $92.5MM since 2018 and have only twice opened the season with a payroll above $100MM.
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