Agree on the "giving yourself up to the right side" to advance the runner to third.
Agree on thinking long and hard about trading Smith. But I would indeed think about it. Done right (if the market is there) you're actually trading 2-'fer-1: Get a young player in swap and you have $7M to spend on another guy, too. We are the Mariners, after all....and that $7M isn't insignificant. The player in return would have to be right.....but I would consider such a move very carefully.
Really we would be down to "Stefen Romero and a couple of football players" AND whatever $7M could buy us.
And Pizzano, of course!! OK, I jest. But minus the sprained hand he might be here as a call up right now. A report, btw.: http://www.wickedlocal.com/article/20150827/SPORTS/150826686