As it turns out, starting pitching is still important to putting together a playoff caliber club. This offseason, the Miami Marlins signed several veteran arms to try and ease the pressure from a sub-par starting rotation. It hasn’t worked out.
The team finds themselves well below .500 as the trade deadline nears. Any other season, they’d be sellers. But with the sale of the team in flux, it complicates matters significantly. In all likelihood, they aren’t moving any of their building block pieces.
That certainly hasn’t stopped teams from asking about them though.