Originally posted on 07/30/2015:

Quote Originally Posted by LT Profits View Post
Rangers are only 4.5 games out of the wild card, so "no shot" is extreme.
This trade has very little bearing on this year. While I agree the Rangers are still in contention for the Wild Card, they're not real contenders this year.

This trade was made because you get an absolute ELITE pitcher signed to your team for 4 years. This wasn't your typical "rental" at the deadline. This trade makes the Rangers significantly better for 2016 and several years after. A rotation of Darvish, Hamels, Holland, Perez, Chi-Chi/Colby looks pretty good where I'm sitting.

As I said, I subscribe to the best player in the trade theory. Hamels is clearly that. But if we're gonna be honest....let's all check back here in 3 years and then we'll actually know who won this one.