The 2024 MLB trade deadline is full of buyers and has precious few sellers.
It is, as specialists call it, a “sellers’ market”.
The Miami Marlins have taken full advantage of the situation and have turned a few rentals and solid players into multiple top prospects.
Their most recent deal saw them ship top left-hander reliever Tanner Scott to the San Diego Padres in exchange for a haul of prospects.
Right-hander Bryan Hoeing will be going to San Diego alongside Scott.
MLB insider Jeff Passan has all the details.
“Full trade, per ESPN sources San Diego Padres get: LHP Tanner Scott and RHP Bryan Hoeing. Miami Marlins get: LHP Robby Snelling, RHP Adam Mazur, IF Graham Pauley, IF Jay Beshears. Padres going for it. Marlins are loading up on prospects. A bonanza of a trade deadline deal,” he tweeted.
Full trade, per ESPN sources
San Diego Padres get: LHP Tanner Scott and RHP Bryan Hoeing
Miami Marlins get: LHP Robby Snelling, RHP Adam Mazur, IF Graham Pauley, IF Jay Beshears
Padres going for it. Marlins are loading up on prospects. A bonanza of a trade deadline deal.
In case you were wondering about the quality of the prospects, none is a can’t-miss guy but all are extremely promising.
In fact, three of the four were among the Padres’ top five prospects: Snelling (second), Mazur (fourth) and Pauley (fifth). Beshears was ranked 24th in their system.
It’s quite a return for a very solid reliever who has only a couple of months of team control.
Scott is very good, though, with a 1.18 ERA and 53 strikeouts in 45.2 innings this season.
He also has 18 saves and will slot right into late-inning duties in San Diego.
The contending Padres are going for it, while the last-place Marlins are building their team of tomorrow, and it looks fantastic.
Besides the four excellent prospects they got from the Padres, they also flipped Trevor Rogers to the Baltimore Orioles for two potential future starters: outfielder Kyle Stowers and infielder Connor Norby.
As far as rebuilds go, Marlins general manager Peter Bendix is doing a wonderful job.