With only days until the MLB trade deadline, the Minnesota Twins are stuck in the uncomfortable middle ground. They’re not a bottom-feeder club with an obvious path toward a complete rebuild, but they also haven’t lived up to preseason expectations.

The Major League Baseball trade deadline is 6 p.m. ET this coming Thursday, July 31, and the action is beginning to pick up. This past weekend we saw Josh Naylor go to the Mariners and Ryan McMahon go to the Yankees,

With a 7-2 loss to the Washington Nationals at Target Field, the Twins fell to 3-6 since returning from the all-star break on July 18, with only a three-game series with Boston between them and the deadline at 5 p.m. on Thursday.