Brad Ziegler was gone, as was Cameron Maybin.
On the day the two veterans vanished from the Marlins in a pair of deadline trades, the painful rebuild continued with a 11-6 drubbing by the Braves at soggy SunTrust Park.
The Braves, a team that is emerging quite nicely from a rebuild of its own, hammered a pair of home runs off starting pitcher Dan Straily and another off returning reliever Tayron Guerrero as the Marlins closed out July with their second straight loss.
For Straily, whose name showed up in the occasional trade rumor leading up to Tuesday’s 4 p.