If they are 10 games over at the trade deadline, I disagree. They should be going all in. In 3 years, Buxton and Sano could get concussions (M&M boys, remember how they were going to carry the Twins to WS), or none of the SP prospects could have worked out, or whatever. If you are in the playoff hunt, legitimately, not barely, you have to take the chance when you have it. There is value in the more certain present. The further into the future you get, the less you know about what it going to happen. I am not saying sell off the big prospects, but one of the many OF/DH/1B types that will sit in the minors while Mauer is here? I just think you all are underestimating the value of certainty, and over valuing the very unpredictable future.