Just read the jays aquired jose reyes, josh johnson, mark burhle, john buck, and emilio bonifacio for yunel escobar and two top prospects. Also read a twitter were giancarlo stanton is pissed about it. Can the pirates come in and steal the unhappy slugger or for that matter ricky nolasco.

Yeah it was a nutso trade. I don't understand why any free agent would ever sign with the Marlins. This is like the third or fourth time they have done this type of thing. Pay a bunch of money for free agents for a season and then trade them a year later.

I seriously doubt they will trade Stanton for at least a couple of seasons since he's still cheap for awhile. I would of signed him to a contract extension before I started the fire sale though.

I'm not a fan of Nolasco at all so I wouldn't touch him.

90 percent of major leaguers are going to go to the highest bidder when they reach free agency. You may be able to get discounts buying out arbitration years , but that is only because of injury and performance risk. If these guys have a chance to lock a team in on a long term mega deal they are going to take it. I am not sure if it's u ion pressure,, peer pressure or just pure greed, but name a few players that signed for less than max value when they became unrestricted FA's. Doesn't matter if it's Miami, Texas, Colorado, LA, Seattle, or even Pittsburgh. If you are the highest bidder you get the player.
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Yeah it was a nutso trade. I don't understand why any free agent would ever sign with the Marlins. This is like the third or fourth time they have done this type of thing. Pay a bunch of money for free agents for a season and then trade them a year later.

I seriously doubt they will trade Stanton for at least a couple of seasons since he's still cheap for awhile. I would of signed him to a contract extension before I started the fire sale though.

I'm not a fan of Nolasco at all so I wouldn't touch him.

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I can't believe Reyes and Burhle didn't have no-trade clauses. Living in Miami is part of the reason to sign with the Marlins.

gr1111 wrote: I can't believe Reyes and Burhle didn't have no-trade clauses. Living in Miami is part of the reason to sign with the Marlins.

I suppose the Marlins get a little more slack than the Pirates apparently have gotten by  virtue of their two World Series championships.  Here I am referring to scuttlebutt and inference that both the Commissioner's Office and the players' union have supposedly put at least some pressure on the Pirates to at least make a show of throwing money at free agents and otherwise spending more on their players.  


That said, this kind of fire sale is Finley-esque.  There is still a distasteful odor hovering over the proceedings.  It's....unseemly, I guess is the word.   While it's not like the Marlins are getting nothing back---even so this is a trade that is purely about unloading salaries and lots of them.  Then again, it is the MLBPA that has created this situation, along with owners who pony up the obscene salaries that we see across the sport.  Maybe, then, these sorts of situations are inevitable under the current collective bargaining agreement and given the current salary structure.  Still stinks, though.

Man, I wish we would've went after Reyes.

He would've plugged 2 of our biggest holes -- SS and a leadoff man.

In the good old days, Peter Ueberroth would have vetoed a trade like this.

Sangue wrote: In the good old days, Peter Ueberroth would have vetoed a trade like this.

Bowie Kuhn with the smackdown!