ARLINGTON, Texas _ More than anyone else on the Miami Marlins, right-hander Dan Straily knows what it's like to be traded _ the conflicting feelings of being wanted by your new team but not wanted enough by your old one, of having to pick up and move at a moment's notice, of having to settle into a new city and clubhouse.
And after being traded four times in 2{ years, from the A's to the Cubs to the Astros to the Padres (to the Reds on a waiver claim) to the Marlins, Straily, 28, knows this much: "It's really like any other job."
Except for the way it's not.
"When you change jobs, most of the time people are doing the same type of work, just in a new atmosphere," Straily said. "Ours is a lot more sudden, not up to you and definitely not the same city more often than not."
The Marlins are poised to be relatively quiet as this year's trade deadline approaches, with Straily among the core players president of baseball operations Michael Hill said the club intends to keep for now.
But with trade action picking up across the league, here is a look, through Straily's eyes and wisdom, at what that is like.
