ANAHEIM, Calif. — It’s not that Chris Young lost belief in the Rangers. Even in a season’s worth of trying moments compressed into three months of frustrating baseball, he stuck to that idea publicly. Even when there was nothing to really believe in, he sought to re-emphasize that belief. But, seeing is still believing.

The 2025 MLB trade deadline has come and gone, and the Texas Rangers did some things, though not necessarily the things that they were expected to do. The Rangers also traded away $250,000 in international slot money which, whatever.