About 28 hours until trade deadline

Rangers brass has a day and some change to find a deal before the non-waiver trade deadline at 3 p.m. Friday to help fortify the Rangers for the stretch run, but Jon Daniels and crew will have to find away to remove the financial shackles that are making their task more difficult. The Phillies will pay the rest of Cliff Lee's salary this season, around $2 million. Philadelphia traded a top prospect whose star had diminished in some circles and a highly regarded pitcher at least three years away. They also tossed in two other prospects. Surely, the Rangers could have matched that prospect package, but was a seemingly paltry $2 million the deal-breaker? It might have been. So, working under the theory that the Rangers can't handle a $2 million hit, they will have to trade salary to take on salary. That points to Hank Blalock, who has around $2.3 million remaining on his 2009 contract, but the Rangers might not want to ship away their solution at first base unless they believ...