What a difference a trade makes. 

All the goodwill Major League Baseball’s Miami Marlins earned by amassing a star-studded $118.1 million roster on the way to opening their new 37,000-seat stadium in time for the 2012 season melted away like an ice cube in the Florida sun this week after the team moved to dump much of its remaining payroll in a blockbuster 12-player deal with the Toronto Blue Jays.