No group was forecast to have great success based on what we knew July 29th or so but here is what we did know: 1. The Twins' peripherals were of a team 8-10 games under .500, not a .500 team. 2. The Twins had one of the worst pitching staffs in the AL. 3. The Twins had dropped like a rock in the standings in the two weeks leading to the deadline. 4. Other teams, such as KC, were coming on strong (whether it would last or not is certainly debatable). 5. The Twins front office had to assume at least one of the teams in front of the Twins would buy, improving their chances. 6. If you did every single thing right, you'd earn a single play-in game, likely on the road. To me, that looks like a selling situation. It did at the time and it still does now. I can see some frustration over the Kintzler move but I would have done the same thing (and advocated it) so I'm certainly not going to complain about it now.