MLB Trade Deadline Day: Are Rays “in the Mix”?

Dan Hamilton-USA TODAY SportsThe MLB trade deadline is just hours away. This year it’s a “hard” deadline, with no major league rostered players available for trade once it has passed.

If you follow baseball, you’ve been hearing and reading trade rumors now for weeks. After all, there are 30 GMs talking and countless baseball reporters trying to get information, read tea leaves, or do whatever it takes to have something of interest to report.

So far there have been a few major transactions — Marcus Stroman, Trevor Bauer and Yasiel Puig are all with new teams — but a lot more smoke than fire.

As we spend our day wondering whether the Rays will be the “do nothing [except getting Eric Sogard]…