Marmol was essentially released, and had some value that offseason(or in the least could've been dumped for Haren, only to NT Haren and get out from his contract.) I don't remember the last time Marmol had value it's been a few years, I don't think we could have gotten anything of value for him that offseason that he was "essentially released". Marmol wasn't "essentially released" during the offseason. And, like SSR said, at the very least he could've netted Haren. He couldn't locate his fastball and everybody in baseball knew it.