Marlins’ President of Baseball Operations Larry Beinfest spoke to the press today about where the Marlins stand on the trade deadline. Here’s what he said (via Juan C. Rodriguez of the Sun-Sentinel):

“Right now it’s a little bit undetermined. I don’t see major, major things happening at this point, but you never know what happens the last two weeks of the month. First and foremost, we need to grind away and dig ourselves out of this.”

“I never really consider ourselves sellers. I think you’re always buying something, it just may be something different…The way we look at it is this: the month of June was rather unfortunate. It put us in a tough position. Obviously, we’ve played well of late and are continuing to dig out, but that’s kind of where we’re at. We’re still in digging-out mode…We need to continue to grind away and hopefully start to make up some ground we lost so terribly in the month of June and then we’ll see.”

“I think it’s important to recognize that our goal was to win this year and at the same time as a by-product of winning to build momentum into the new ballpark. That’s still our goal. We want to make sure we have a strong second half and build momentum as we head to that park. If you look at a lot of pieces of this team, we see them as components in the new ballpark.”

“In terms of huge moves, who knows, but from a big picture view, there are a lot of pieces on this team we covet and think are going to be big parts of this team for years to come…I don’t see dramatic changes ahead as we try to build momentum. What I see is more health. We need guys to continue to grow and step up and be consistent.”

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