Marlins optioning Max Meyer is embarrassing.
Cherington needs to be on the phone hounding them about Luzardo. Since he's 26 and still has two full years of control remaining, I think he will have some serious value in any trade, but the Marlins season has gone so sideways that I would imagine he is going to be on the block by the deadline.
I doubt he's attainable without one of Chandler or Johnson as the headliner, which I would be skittish to do, but if we were able to do a quantity over quality swap (for once in the other direction), it would be a dream. Maybe something like both Peguero and Bae, as well as multiple pitchers -- if you had to include one of Harrington, Solometo, or Chandler, that just might be the cost of doing business, but my feeling on Chandler is that he's going to fully break out and should probably be closer to untouchable. His fastball is outrageous and he is still only fully coming into himself as a pitcher.
Anyways, not worth dwelling on hypotheticals very much, and I would imagine Gonzales and Peguero still don't hold huge value despite good starts. Those were names we heard in the mix for Cabrera, with rumors of a sticking point being over Shim or Jebb, I forget the exact arrangement. But maybe there is some framework there and the Pirates could add the right frontliner to a deal. It obviously goes without saying, but adding Luzardo to Keller along with Jones and soon Skenes would be quite nasty, with Perez rounding things out. I don't think this is totally out of left field, either. It's the exact kind of trade that a rebuilding team with momentum and a decently deep farm system should be able to pull off.
