Rangers set for pennant push with deadline deals
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THE Texas Rangers moved their chips all in and the once high and mighty Yankees traded talent to build for the future on Monday as the Major League Baseball trading deadline came to a dizzying end.
All but three MLB teams — the Tigers, Phillies and Rockies — got in on the action ahead of the non-waiver deadline.
On a day when contenders send prospects to struggling teams in return for help in the pennant race, American League West-leading Texas landed a top prize in Milwaukee catcher Jonathan Lecroy.
Texas sent its top outfield prospect Lewis Brinson in a package of young players to Milwaukee.
The Rangers were not done, however, as they also welcomed another bat by obtaining Carlos Beltran from the Yankees, the winners of a record 27 World Series who are usually deadline buyers but are trying to transform their aged roster.
The Yankees sent Beltran, 39, who is having an outstanding season at the plate, to Texas for pitcher Dillon Tate, last year’s fourth overall pick in the draft.
The Bronx Bombers had earlier dealt away a pair of closers, sending Cuban flamethrower Aroldis Chapman to the Chicago Cubs and Andrew Miller to Cleveland for more promising young talent.
Bolstering the bullpen was a top priority for the National League-leading Cubs, who are striving to win their first World Series in 108 years, and AL Central frontrunners the Indians, who last won the crown in 1948.
In the NL, the San Francisco Giants added a pitcher to the rotation and another to the bullpen, landing lefty starter Matt Moore from Tampa Bay, and lefty reliever Will Smith from the Brewers.
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