It is possible the San Francisco Giants can get back in this thing, you know. There’s more than a month between now and the trade deadline, and that’s plenty. They’re only 7 1/2 games out of the final wild-card spot. Where’s your faith?No, I don’t believe this will happen either, and I realize that it’s impossible to read that paragraph in a voice other than the cheerleader from “Fast Times at Ridgemont High,” but the Giants have come back from longer odds. They were 7 1/2 games out on July 4, 2010, when Bruce Bochy used Eli Whiteside to pinch-run for Buster Posey. I was on the internet that day, and I can assure you that there had been NO greater crime committed against the game of baseball in the sport’s history to that point. The Giants ended up being fine that season. So, yes, goofier things have happened.For the moment, though, let’s assume the Giants will sell. The doubleheader sweep of the Braves was impressive, but it was about a 10th of a way toward a definitive statement. They’re now second in baseball in batting average (!) and sixth in baseball in adjusted OPS (!!), but they’re also 29th in baseball in adjusted ERA. There’s no way to find enough pitching to be a postseason team, not in June, and not with this much of a deficit.If the Giants sell, it shouldn’t be a huge teardown, though. You figure that teams will be all over Luis Arraez, who can fit on every contending team from now until 2040, give or take, and Robbie Ray, who is pitching well enough to attract attention. They’ll make their higher-paid players available, but you shouldn’t expect them to be traded.And that’s the story of a mostly quiet, extremely predictable deadline.Perhaps.When I read Jim Bowden’s recent survey of team needs, though, there were a few types of players who kept coming up. Outfielders were on the lists for four contending teams. Five other teams were looking for hitters, with no position specified. And a whopping 10 teams were looking for bullpen help of any variety, which seems like it could even be a low estimate.The Giants would really be in the ol’ catbird’s seat if they had some of those players to trade. Instead they have one infielder (there wasn’t a single team looking for one in Bowden’s article) and a starting pitcher (who will be popular). They don’t have the kind of roster that will make their phones ring off the hook.Except, hear me out, what if the Giants actually did have some of those players to trade?We can get the obvious candidates out of the way. There are so many teams looking for relievers it’s entirely plausible, if not likely, that teams start poking around the Giants’ bullpen. Before you scoff, consider that the Giants once traded Trevor Rosenthal to the Brewers for Tristan Peters. Rosenthal never threw a pitch for either team, and Peters is now looking like a long-term fixture in the outfield. For the White Sox. Because the Giants traded him for Brett Wisely.That’s not the point, though. The point is that teams can be so desperate for bullpen help that they’ll trade real prospects for relievers who might not even be healthy. So, yes, if they think there’s something that will work with literally any of the Giants’ relievers, from the veterans like Sam Henges and Matt Gage to some of the pre-arbitration arms, like Caleb Kilian or Keaton Winn, a team might have some interest. You’d better believe that at least one playoff-bound team is arrogant enough to think they can fix Ryan Walker and his weird, wormy pitches. I’ll bet they’re right, too.