This article was originally published on www.si.com/mlb/red-sox as Red Sox Get Discouraging Trade Deadline Update On Twins All-Star. The Boston Red Sox are in playoff position with six games to go until the trade deadline, and that has fans dreaming of blockbuster acquisitions.

The Boston Red Sox of late have flipped their script. After dealing away their best hitter, Rafael Devers, in a puzzling June blockbuster, the Sox bumbled to a 3-7 mark in the days immediately following the trade.