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Rays trade Nate Lowe to Texas Rangers for three prospects

The most likely name to be moved by the Rays over the last year has been 1B Nate Lowe, a prospect blocked at the major league level by Ji-Man Choi. After shopping him aggressively at the trade deadline in 2020, the Rays have used the Winter Meetings to finally find him a new home with a clear path to starting: Texas.

The full trade has the Rays packaging Nate Lowe with unranked prospect Jake Guenther, and nets three prospects in return: OF/C Heriberto Hernandez, Alexander Ovalles, and Osleivis Basabe.

For the Rays, the primary work of this deal is freeing up a roster spot, but diversifying risk and spreading out the prospect value into three pieces far from the majors is an interesting but necessary added wrinkle.