So, here's some of the numbers. For 2013, the Marlins get more than $44M of salary relief. I used the contract numbers from COTS (now on the Blue Jays page) and the MLBTR arbitration estimate for Bonifacio at $2.5M.
As far as total burden, the Marlins traded $165,750,000 worth of contract obligations to the Jays.
Buerhle: $51,000,000 ($12,000,000; $19,000,000; $20,000,000)
Reyes: $92,000,000 ($10,000,000; $16,000,000; $22,000,000; $22,000,000; $22,000,000)
Johnson: $13,750,000
Buck: $6,500,000
Bonifacio: $2,500,000
Given how backloaded those contracts were and Loria's reputation, it should not have been surprising to any of those players that they were traded before the really big money came due. I guess in a pure business sense and in the very short term, the Marlins did well - they got one year of very good perfromance out of both Buerhle and Reyes at relatively bargain rates.
In the long term, of course, they screwed themselves.
