Against all odds, the team that his general manager put together on the fly after last year’s trade deadline capitulation is within spitting distance of a playoff berth. Now this year’s deadline is less than a week away, and the Twins have six more games to show … what exactly? Dealing their best veteran chips, All-Star pitcher Joe Ryan and catcher Ryan Jeffers, would make the team less competitive. The Twins are in a weird spot here, close to making the playoffs but not necessarily what you’d call a playoff team. If they were terrible, the Twins would just trade Ryan, Jeffers and Bell for some prospects to add to an already plump minor league system and look optimistically ahead.