Sandy Alcantara Tagged Quantity Starter: Does MLB Still Need Innings Eaters?
FanGraphs labeled Sandy Alcantara a Quantity Starter after Tommy John surgery, reframing the former Cy Young winner as a volume arm. The piece debates whether...
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Sandy Alcantara Isn’t a Discount Signing: Why Mets Are Buying Innings, Not Cy Young Dominance
Mets’ one-year deal with Sandy Alcantara reframes pitcher value from peak dominance to innings volume. Using FanGraphs’ Quantity Starter logic, New York is pricing durability...
Sandy Alcantara’s Quantity Starter Label Exposes MLB’s Systematic Burnout of Ace Pitchers
Sandy Alcantara won Cy Young with 228 innings in 2022, then needed elbow reconstruction in 2023. FanGraphs' Quantity Starter label reframes his workload history as...