The Major League Baseball trading deadline always gets teams, fans and executives in a frenzy as they try to find that missing piece that helps build a World Series champion or looks for that team willing to give up a prospect for the right veteran and many times those deals don't work out as planned, with teams giving up way more than they ever receive.

David Schoenfield took a look on the ESPN.com Sweet Spot Blog about all the best deadline deals that teams have pulled off over the years and the one on the Texas Rangers was one of the most interesting of the series. The Rangers have always been an active team at the deadline and they were again this season, going for Matt Garza and they still may not be done yet. The team reportedly will listen to offers for Elvis Andrus, as they have Jurickson Profar in the pipeline at short.

The team traded for Cliff Lee and gave up Justin Smoak to the Mariners and while that deal was solid, it doesn't beat the Elvis Andrus, Matt Harrison, Neftali Feliz and Jarrod Saltalamacchia for Mark Teixeira in 2007, as the team received a foundation of players that are still performing for them today. Saltalamacchia is on the Red Sox, but Andrus has turned out to be a franchise player and the team also got a ton out of Feliz and Harrison after they were plucked from the Braves.

Saltalamacchia was the top prospect at the time while Andrus was hitting under .250 in Double-A and he now has turned out to be the best one and while Teixeira was excellent in the following years after the trade, the Rangers got plenty of value for their star. The team got All-Star appearances from Andrus, Feliz and Harrison and although Feliz is injured, he was a key part of that deal as well.