Miami Marlins Trade For Andrew Cashner, Colin Rea

Looks like help is finally on the way.

As first reported by Buster Olney of ESPN, the Miami Marlins have reached an agreement to bolster the back end of their pitching rotation for a 2016 playoff push with two San Diego Padres: Andrew Cashner and Colin Rea.  Josh Naylor is the centerpiece of the deal heading West, allowing Naylor the opportunity to return one day to the same stage he was on three weeks ago for the MLB Futures Game.

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Cashner has slowly emerged this week as the most likely acquisition in the most blood-thirsty, seller friendly Trade Deadline market in recent memory. But both pieces have upside, and Rea is actually controllable well beyond the end of this season.  The Miami Herald’s Barry Jackson first broke that piece of the story, and begs a series of questions we’ll analyze later in the day.

Rumors also indicate that the Marlins did have to break that policy of not trading away from the current MLB roster to get this deal done, and the news of who that player is hasn’t yet been released.  In fact, neither team has said anything official yet.  A safe bet would seem to be this was agreed to late in the night, and players are being told face to face they have some packing to do.  Whether this trade was worth it nor not depends entirely on who just joined Naylor in joining the Padres, and personally I can only think of three players that were at Marlins Park yesterday that could have left without hurting the team.

But we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.  For now, know that a deal is in place, and that the Marlins front office has put a big vote of confidence in this 2016 team to end a twelve-year playoff drought.

Time for us to do the same.

Here’s the full MLBTradeRumors release that woke me up this morning.  We’ll give you our full analysis once the coffee kicks in here in the Central Time Zone, and more details are announced.