The Texas Rangers acquired Jonathan Lucroy and Carlos Beltran prior to the non-waiver trade deadline, but they talked about making even bigger deals.
Jon Daniels engaged in talks with the Tampa Bay Rays about their pitchers and discussed Chris Sale and Jose Quintana with the Chicago White Sox.
"I don't think they were being difficult," Daniels said of his potential trading partners. "I thought they had great pitchers in a market in which no pitching was available. They were understandably asking for a lot, especially for guys with 3, 4, and 5 years of control. They may get as much in a year or two as they would have gotten today."