Beinfest is making calls

[MiamiHomer]

This much is certain as the trade deadline approaches: the Marlins definitely are NOT sellers. Just spoke with Larry Beinfest, who sounded upbeat about the club's prospects. Whether that leads to a trade to upgrade the roster between now and Friday's deadline is another story, but Beinfest at least sounded optimistic.

"We were on the phone today, we'll see," said Beinfest, the team's president of baseball operations. "We're looking at ways to improve ourselves right now. We're active."

Beinfest said that as far as he is concerned, the Marlins are in contention and is "trending" upward, with four quality outings out of their starters during the road trip to San Diego and Los Angeles.

"The wild card is certainly not out of reach," Beinfest said. "And I think the Phillies won today, but we have a lot of baseball left and we have a bunch of games against the Phillies. The way we sit six days away from the deadline, we're 'in,' and we'll see what happens. I'd like to think that things aren't going to change between now and Friday and we're going to stay in in."

[nny]

I think the main thing is, if we're buyers, what do we have to buy with?

Morrison and Stanton are untouchable. They are out.

West likely isn't untouchable but, being our best SP spec, likely close to it.

RVH probably isn't untouchable and probably our best pitching piece we'd actually move. I think a ton of people have been underrated him because of how he did before. Yes, he sucked hard core. He also jumped from A+ ball to MLB, he was not ready. Now he's (hopefully) ready.

Tucker is hurt. Winter probably knocked up his value to something decent but is hurt. Out of our 3 C+ OF prospects (Raynor, Petersen, Cousins) that could have broken into B- territory, only one is still a C+ spec (cousins) and his value has still fallen. For our low level SP prospects, Kaminska is probably the only one with value himself, maybe Sanabia but his season has not been impressive, others are more of a thrown in. We likely wouldn't trade Dominguez unless it's for a 3B and his value has likely fallen aswell.

I mean really our only trading chips are Gaby Sanchez and Chris Coghlan. Sanchez has had to have his value drop with his no-power output in NOLA.

So that leaves Coghlan as our only real big spec we could get something with. And he definitely has value. But enough to make a team-changing trade? I don't know about that.

[nny]

Correction: Tucker is back and started last night for NOLA. Tucker+Coghlan could probably get us something team-changing.