The Houston Astros are a great baseball team, they won the 2017 World Series and they made it to game five of the 2018 NLCS. Great baseball teams don’t happen by accident, they take meticulous thought and work to piece together the right combination of homegrown talent, trades, and free agent acquisitions.
Building a great team isn’t just about throwing money at players all willy-nilly as all teams can’t do that and there are eventual penalties and probable busts that come from it. Teams have to collect a solid team of coaches and talent developers to saturate their minor league system in order to ensure drafted players and international signings mature to their potential.