This year’s trade deadline for the Texas Rangers was not terribly exciting, with the team making a few minor moves but nothing terribly impactful.
And that mirrors the trade deadline this year as a whole. There were a lot of moves, but as Ken Rosenthal points out, the story this year was quantity over quality. For all the talk of this being a great sellers market and a couple of moves being seen as significant overpays (Yusei Kikuchi, anyone?), none of Baseball America’s top 100 prospects were traded. Miami, the ChiSox and Tampa were all very active sellers, and they dealt quality players, but the deadline had a dearth of big, needle-moving deals.