The Texas Rangers have traded Heriberto Hernandez, Osleivis Basabe and Alexander Ovalles to the Tampa Bay Rays for Nate Lowe, Jake Guenther and a player to be named later. This is on the heels of the Rangers trading Lance Lynn to the Chicago White Sox for Dane Dunning and Avery Weems.
I have some random thoughts.
First of all, I think we all knew the Rangers weren’t likely going to go into full blown “burn it to the ground” mode. While they have acknowledged they are rebuilding, they weren’t approaching this as an exercise in stripping things down to the studs and losing 100-plus games for a couple of seasons.