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[QUOTE="OrangeDW, post: 4388556, member: 2458"]
I should back up a bit….their first team that made the playoffs of this “run” in 2013 had some high priced vets they traded for from Boston: Adrian Gonzales, Carl Crawford - they were largely underwhelming and overpriced in LA, but still solid, and helped with getting to the playoffs - though they were always one and done.

But when the Dodgers started winning in the playoffs, it was home grown guys like Seager, Bellinger, Pederson, Puig, and castoffs turned around like Justin Turner, Max Muncy, and Chris Taylor making up basically the entire lineup.   Lost in the World Series twice with that group, then made the Mookie Betts trade to try to get over the top…..then last year the Trae Turner trade(in effect replacing Seager), and now Freddie Freeman.   They had the prospects to trade for Betts and Turner, so really that farm system is still the foundation for everything.

Mets got similar money - if they get that farm system humming and make the right moves, they should be a perennial contender IMO.
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