Post Trade Deadline, did the team get better?

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(08-03-2019, 01:25 PM)NKURyan Wrote: No, they realized that you don't win championships with decent players and instead shipped them out for guys that they though would become great players in a couple of years, then started pursuing veteran guys through free agency and trades when the time was right for them to cash in and actually make a run at greatness rather than wasting those moves (and money) before the time was right to actually win. They realized that sometimes you need to take a step back to take two steps forward and it paid off big for both teams.

And it only took them fifteen years to get there.  And both have budgets probably twice what the Reds have.  So it's exactly the same.