The Phillies are expected to strongly consider trading Cole Hamels if they continue to struggle as the July 31 non-waiver trade deadline gets closer. The left-hander is set to become a free agent after the season. ESPN's Buster Olney says the Rangers could be his most likely landing spot. "The Rangers are viewed by some rival evaluators as the favorites to land [Hamels]," Olney wrote this week. "Texas has the perfect piece to offer Philadelphia, 23-year-old third baseman Mike Olt -- a former supplemental first-rounder whose path to the big leagues is blocked by Adrian Beltre -- and Hamels would give Texas precisely what it needs as it tries to climb the World Series mountaintop again."