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So, to put Gordon's idea together with mine, we get:
Detroit: Kendrys, Perez, Tyler Pike, and an AAAA BP arm for the stretch/Sept. (Bawcom, LaFromboise, Leutge, Burgoon, ???).
Florida: Castellanos, Walker, Maurer, Morban, Taylor, Elias.
Seattle: Stanton, LoMo, and Crosby.
That leaves us E-Ram, Hultzen and Paxton for the back of the rotation, Moran replaces Perez, plus Seager, Miller, Zunino and Franklin remain for the infield, along with the better of Smoak or LoMo. We'd be really young, but man, there would be a ton of talent on the field.
LoMo replaces Ibanez/Bay (Ibanez goes to DH the rest of the year), and backs up or replaces Smoak at 1B. Stanton takes over in RF, Saunders moves to CF, Ackley takes over LF, and Endy is the 4th OF, and Morse the 5th. Ackley also provides IF depth. Bay and Guti are casualties of the crunch.
Detroit gets the DH and the killer lefty to try to win a WS with this year, plus a young arm whose arrival in AAA will be in time for their next need in their rotation, plus a AAAA bullpen arm to rest guys in September.
Florida gets maybe the best pitching prospect in the game, the best 3B prospect in the game, a 5 tool Latin player, a shortstop prospect who looks able to field AND hit, a #3-4 pitching prospect also ready for the bigs, and a really good Cuban pitching prospect probably just a year away. All those players will add to the Marlins present stockpile to make their system the strongest in baseball. In a little over a year, Loria will be able to go -"see, I told you!", while the Mariners and Detroit fight it out for the postseason.