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The Ticket Top 10

The Invasion- Looking back at the greatest trade in Rangers history

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🗓️ 1 August 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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July 31st, 2025

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0:00.0

Let's talk a little Texas Ranger trade day.

0:03.7

They have yet to make a move today.

0:06.0

The Major League Baseball Trade deadline is coming up.

0:08.2

We are now six hours away from the deadline at 5 o'clock this evening.

0:14.4

And the Rangers have been rumored to be tied on a couple of different back end of the bullpen arms.

0:21.3

See, Hunter Harvey is a name that is being linked.

0:24.1

Pete Fairbanks, they have checked in on.

0:25.9

So we'll see if they end up being able to work something out

0:28.3

with some of the restrictions that they have in regards to the CBT,

0:32.2

where they do not want to cross that.

0:36.6

But who knows? Feels like they want to do something. But who knows?

0:38.3

Feels like they want to do something.

0:39.9

Will they do something?

0:41.5

Time will tell, and by time I mean six hours.

0:44.2

But they have been very aggressive over the years in making trades.

0:49.0

And some of you who have been around for a while,

0:51.0

or if you are a Rangers fan,

0:53.1

you will remember this one very well because

0:55.3

Mark Tashara was traded from Texas after being drafted fifth overall in 2001, a homegrown

1:04.4

All-Star, a gold Glover. It came to a point where the Rangers were just not going to compete at the level they wanted.

1:14.2

And he was by far the biggest chip that they had at the trade deadline.

1:18.3

And on July 31st of 2007, if I remember correctly, they traded Mark Tashara to the Atlanta Braves for a hall of players.

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