The trade: The Texas Rangers acquire RHP Max Scherzer and cash from the New York Mets for IF Luisangel Acuna.
When the Angels declared that Shohei Ohtani wouldn't be dealt before the trade deadline, one sad consequence was that it seemed to make the deadline itself a little more banal. There would be trades, sure, but an Ohtani deal itself would have made this an indelible week. Maybe the deadline would be on the dull side or maybe it wouldn't, but our shot at a big fish changing teams seemed far less likely.