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1) He's looking at trades, not FA. Might add something in FA, but not a big splash (or not the biggest splash, anyway). MAN, do I want to pry Stanton from the corpse of the Marlins' 2013 season.
2) He wants to let the minor league thing play out, and since he might trade Franklin he can't really oversell him as a piece for this year's team. Ditto Zunino vs. Montero. If Montero can't play 1B and sucks at DH, he needs to know that before making a call on Zunino. That's probably a Spring call, and Zunino might take a half-lap around Tacoma while we figure out where to place last year's big splash.
3) Has money - money isn't the issue. Has talent. Needs a straw, and won't sacrifice the #1 pick in this year's draft for a bendy straw (And yes, Spec I did think that was a Swisher reference).
I still think Montero goes in a Stanton deal (getting them a new Latin face that all the relocated New York fans know and understand). If he doesn't, then it's because the Marlins don't think he can play catcher or we love him at 1B/DH.
But that trade phone had better heat up for us, because the other signals Jack is sending seem to indicate he's not rushing more kids from the minors and he's not spending all that FA money on anybody special - so special needs to arrive in a 5-for-1.
~G