Marlins Trade Deadline Thread: Comes And Goes Without A Move

[HUGG]

It's stupid to trade Volstad even considering what he is and assuming no improvement. As it stands right now he's a 5 starter who shows flashes of mid-rotation quality. But his value is zero right now. Why trade a club-controlled 5 starter who's young for essentially nothing?

Lately, he's been mid-rotation quality 75% of the time and the other 25% he's been a AA pitcher.

I think I take that from my 5. He's become ok in my book.

[lou]

If we keep winning and get back to .500 by the deadline, I doubt we do anything. While it's true that we're likely too far back to make a run this year, I doubt we're going to do anything that dramatically changes the team going into the new ballpark next year.

For arguments sake, Choate, Infante, Dobbs, and even Leo is not dramatic.

[Shamrock]

Sweet! Ramp, lou, hugg, and markkotsay. I've been missing out on some well informed Marlins discussion

[Omar]

Whoa, the Shambone arrives

[MiamiHomer]

Ramp, Hugg and MK7 gon be happy to see you.

[Ramp]

Ramp, Hugg and MK7 gon be happy to see you.

I see/talk to Sham enough in the city. Now he's invading my space here? Shite.

[Namaste]

The return of The Rock

[Mainge]

Oh man.

[emkayseven]

Yayyyyy I got sham here

[THE_REAL_MIBS]

joecapMARLINS: Larry Beinfest -- I don't see major, major things happening (as part of his answer to whether team will be buyers or sellers) #Marlins

/Twitter

[Swifty]

What about major, not " major major"?

[THE_REAL_MIBS]

Here’s what President of Baseball Operations Larry Beinfest had to say Wednesday about where the Marlins stand with the July 31 non-waiver trade deadline fast approaching:

“Right now it’s a little bit undetermined. I don’t see major, major things happening at this point, but you never know what happens the last two weeks of the month. First and foremost, we need to grind away and dig ourselves out of this.”

“I never really consider ourselves sellers. I think you’re always buying something, it just may be something different…The way we look at it is this: the month of June was rather unfortunate. It put us in a tough position. Obviously, we’ve played well of late and are continuing to dig out, but that’s kind of where we’re at. We’re still in digging-out mode…We need to continue to grind away and hopefully start to make up some ground we lost so terribly in the month of June and then we’ll see.”

“I think it’s important to recognize that our goal was to win this year and at the same time as a by-product of winning to build momentum into the new ballpark. That’s still our goal. We want to make sure we have a strong second half and build momentum as we head to that park. If you look at a lot of pieces of this team, we see them as components in the new ballpark.”

“In terms of huge moves, who knows, but from a big picture view, there are a lot of pieces on this team we covet and think are going to be big parts of this team for years to come…I don’t see dramatic changes ahead as we try to build momentum. What I see is more health. We need guys to continue to grow and step up and be consistent.”

Florida Marlins trade deadline talks with Prez of baseball ops Larry Beinfest

[MiamiHomer]

Samson was on with LeBatard and spoke about the Marlins FO when talking about how they evaluate trades and during that discussion he mentioned that they've had JJ-Anibal-Ricky since '06 and that you have to look at the situation and wonder if you can win with that core of pitching or move one and buy a different pitcher since they've been unable to reach the playoffs with that trio. It makes more sense if you actually hear it but I found it interesting when listening and all the rumors around moving Ricky or Anibal.

[Ramp]

That didn't make any sense

[MiamiHomer]

Exactly.