Yahoo Sports senior MLB analysts Jordan Shusterman and Jake Mintz discuss the NL East and what players may be on the move - both coming and going - near the trade deadline. Hear the full conversation on the “Baseball Bar-B-Cast” podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen.

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Now is a good opportunity to shoehorn the Phillies into this conversation because what they need is Steve Pierce.

Ok. And 2018, Dave Dombrowski makes the move for Steve Pearce when he's running the Red Sox and that guy wins the, the World Series.

Now, obviously, that's not that simple, but they need someone that they can platoon Brandon Marsh with in the outfield because when they play the Braves inevitably in the w in the playoffs and the Braves were throwing Max Fried and Chris Ale out there.

Brandon Marsh is a guy who has not started against a lefty for like a couple of months.

Right.

I also think the Phillies should go out and get one more reliever just to supplement that bullpen.

I think as far as starting pitching goes, they'll probably stick with what they have in house.

Let's talk about the Nationals and the Marlins very quickly.

Both of these teams should sell the NATS, they're definitely gonna sell weaker gone.

Dylan Floro is gone.

They'll try and trade Trevor Williams.

The main question is, do they try and trade the guys with multiple years of control?

The Marlins are gonna try and trade anything they possibly can.

That's gonna be Josh Bell.

That's gonna be Tanner Scott who is probably the best reliever available.

He's an impending free agent.

He's gonna get them a real prospect or two back.

And then jazz is a very interesting conversation just because do teams think they can shoehorn him into second base in the infield?

Probably.

But it's like that guy hasn't played in the infield since 2021.

That would be less of my concern with jazz.

Really?

It's more of, do you know what you're getting offensively?

And do you know that your team wants to hang out with jazz schism for the next year and a half?

Right?

Will Miami at this point, will Peter Bendix at this point jump at a great offer tomorrow or is he going to take this down to the deadline?

Everybody knows he's going to deal multiple players.

And so is he willing to take this down to the end now or will he jump at the first great offer that he gets for Scott for a Jazz?

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