With the trade deadline about a month away, it’s looking like the Rays will sit this one out.  They can’t add salary and they can’t subtract key pieces of their team. 

But, the list of players that appear to be available around baseball includes several ex-Rays.  The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Jim Salisbury chronicles the buyers and sellers  for this year’s trade market.  The Mets are in definite need for a first baseman and Aubrey Huff has been rumored as a target. 

The Marlins are said to be offering Jorge Cantu.  The Nationals have made Joe Beimel available. 

The Orioles appear to be trying to be purging themselves of all things Rays.  In addition to Aubrey Huff, they are said to be offering up Ty Wiggington and Danys Baez.