The Marlins reportedly remain interested in trading for Jarrod Saltalamacchia or Taylor Teagarden, but they may not be prepared to give up the "frontline" starter the Rangers desire.

 

They'd be more up for trading Anibal Sanchez than Chris Volstad, Ricky Nolasco or Josh Johnson. The Marlins are also believed to be interested in Max Ramirez, whose price tag wouldn't be as high. The Rangers are thought to be interested in Jonathan Sanchez, who the Marlins have been trying to get for Jorge Cantu. However, odds are that nothing will happen on that front. The Marlins will probably have to look elsewhere for a catcher.

Source: South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Hell no im not giving up JJ,volstad or NolasKo for Salty. Anibal in a heart beat. I wonder if we would trade cantu for sanchez then deal him for salty. Who has the higher ceiling? I dont know much about sanchez except hes supposed to be kinda like miller.

Not even close to happening, Rangers can dream all they want.

Won't happen.

For 2009, I wouldn't mind shipping Anibal for Salty/Max and signing a cheap vet like Pavano to be the 5th starter.

But we have too little depth at SP moving forward as it is, and that worries me. Then again, we can probably boost that depth a good bit if/when we move Uggla/Cantu/Ross after this year.

Still a 23-year old Salty or 24-year old Ramirez, both with tremendous upside, would we really big going forward, and maybe even for 2009.

 

Also, one thing that has not been discussed about Salty. Since he is a left-handed batter who projects to play either catcher or first base, he could really fill part of that left-handed 1B/OF void that we have. If our catchers are Baker/Salty, we can also give Salty a healthy number of starts at first to lessen the burden on Gaby Sanchez.

 

This situation also makes Cantu more expendable, and it allows us to fill that last bench spot with a pure OF. And then our depth chart should be complete.

In other news, I'm still interested in dating Natalie Portman.