Good baseball teams get better in July. That’s the entire point of the trade deadline, after all, to add the pieces you still need while you still can.
Good teams try to win as many baseball games, hang as many banners as possible. Hell, even mediocre teams often do the same, a concept we’ll see on full display this weekend as the disappointing San Diego Padres limp into town.
Bad teams, at least the good bad teams, don’t intend to stay bad for long. The 2024 St. Louis Cardinals are already beginning to scare me since they’re just not the type of club to tolerate the miserable nature that this 2023 season has dealt them.