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The problem is Stanton is the guy most likely to generate any actual income for your team. He's a league MVP, HR champ and gate draw. Meanwhile the Marlins are still paying Brad Ziegler ($7mill) and Junichi Tazawa ($5mill), and will pay yhe arbitration costs for Marcell Ozuna ($11mill projected) and Dan Straily ($4.6mill projected). Unloading those players, all of whom are tradable for something better than an A ball pitcher0, saves more money per year. Short term but you keep your best asset. and if Wei-Yin Chen ($54mill per 3 years) comes back healthy, he becomes a trade candidate. And don't forget the reason Stanton got that contract in the first place was to show Marlins' fans this team wasn't always going to be about firesales and salary dumps Stanton received that offer in the wake of the Josh Johnson/Jose Reyes trade with the Blue Jays as a how of good intentions to the fans. This trade just pounded the biggest nail into the Marlins' fanbase coffin. The man who was meant to be their symbol against firesale salary dumps was just dumped somewhere else for nothing. It's a shame they worked so hard to make MLB pay for that big new stadium a few years ago. Maybe they can get some cash back there selling the chairs. They won't be needing them because whatever fans were left are not coming back this time... But.hey, they saved a few bucks doing it.

No. The Marlins had the option to NOT sell the reigning NL MVP for pennies on the dollar. And they were in talks wth the Dodgers. Think the Dodgers got to offer 2 A-ballers and a $20mill MLB player?

Castro was nothing more than salary relief that shouldn't be forgotten or viewed any other way. And apparently it's $35mill in cash, per MLBTR. So the savings off that contract is potentially $57mill. Or 2 free years....

If you give them two nobody A-ballers, the Marlins will knock off $50mill.* *Offer valid to New York Yankees only

Guzman is a gamble. And in prospect deals the past couple years, most GMs have been averse to gambles. MLB-ready is a big deal, even for the high profile prospects. There is a REALLY GOOD chance Guzman never makes MLB. Pitchers are toohard to predict. To take a package this light and pay $50mill? I bet no othet team could have gotten Stanton so cheaply...

Tanking to help the Yankees. Just last week, all the talk was the Marlins had some "outrageous asking price" and expected teams to take Stanton's entire contract. And they got back two unknown unranked teenagers who probably never see MLB and a big contract AND kicked in thirty mill? He got nothing back for Stanton. Nothing. Marlins fans will miss Loria.

There is a difference between losing 6-5 and winning 8-6..

Technically we could be adding a healthier Price. Going all in for Darvish or Arrieta might help short term. But at some point the Sox would have way too much tied up in Price and whoever, and Stanton will still be young enough to do damage. DD did miss out on Chatwood, who might have been the sneakers pitching arm available. ...

Matt Adams sucks. The Braves didn't release him because he's bursting with talent...

It may not be his fault, but his plan was to win in the next couple years and after that, hope and pray? DD will definitely have to be creative now. Or he can do what he usually does and sign a few long term megadeals that may or may not help the immediate future but will cripple the team long term. Welcome to Boston, JD and Carlos...

Another available name no one mentions is Andrew McCutchen...

Houston is the scarier option. Imagine Stanton playing full time in that little ballpark where he already broke one scoreboard. Think Houston lets him go to NY too easily?

Reportedly they want to get unde the Luxury Tax. No way they can do that and trade for Stanton. I'm not sue they can even if they can unload a few of their heavier contracts, most of which are not attached to productive players...

If Stanton keeps blocing trades, they will just cut payroll elsewhere. They'll deal Yelich and Ozuna and Straily and hope to find takers for Ziegler and Prado...

He'd be an excellent Cuban headliner in that town with pictures on every billboard and on the backs of every program. But Mattingly and he did NOT see eye to eye in LA and certainly won't in Miami...

Nope. Yelich and Ozuna...

And then Harper in 2018...

Do we get to count Celtics' series? We'll let you count the Knicks. And the Nets...

I thought about that too. But no way in HELL does Miami want to be the sight of a Puig-Mattingly reunion

Probably not. Also I believe they were not on his short list. Although thst was probably an oversight and he'd probably ok the deal...

Big week for the Angels. First Maitan. Then Ohtani. Can Stanton be next?

You know, he did know Devers existed. In fact, Devers was the one elite prospect he didn't trade. The Sox had plenty of depth at third. How many guys were the Sox supposed to have there?

I never really hated Price and certainly not Lackey before Boston. My hatred for Lackey came about after his first two seasons with the Sox...

Russell Branyan seems like a stretch. Adam Dunn is more likely than many Yankee fans like to admit...

I'm certainly not pro-Moreland, just like I wasn't last year. But I would at least hope to get a LHH option to platoon with Travis. While the Sox could use Swihart that way, to me that means they'll probably be looking for a 1b in July