Marlins OF Giancarlo Stanton will be traded during the offseason, reports Bob Nightengale of USA Today.
Stanton cleared waivers earlier this month and is already eligible to be traded to any team, sources recently told Jeff Passan of Yahoo! Sports, but Nightengale says the team won't trade Stanton until after the season.
"Sure, no one likes trading away a star, but the Marlins simply have no choice this time," writes Nightengale. "This is a franchise already with more than $400 million in debt. They simply can't be viable economically with a player whose salary jumps from $14.