To the Twins' credit, and one more parallel to the Astros, they were the first to draft George Springer when they drafted him out of high school in 2008.
I mean they made it to the NLCS and pushed one of the best teams in baseball to 7 games but it apparently doesn't work? If you bullpen a game you're likely covering up a deficiency. If you can cover up a deficiency as glaring as our starting pitching and somehow make it to game 7 of the CS then i'd argue it works REALLY well.
Here are the losing streaks of past World Series winners: '18 BOS: 3 games (4x) '17 HOU: 5 games (11-17 Aug) '16 CHI: 5 games (12-14 Jul) '15 KC: 4 games (11-17 Sept) '14 SF: 6 games (10-16 June) '13 BOS: 3 games (15-15 May) It's a long season and even the best teams have down turns. I do think a trade would help invigorate the team and get them back on track and finally getting healthy will pay dividends.