Building a big-league team for sustained success is very hard, as evidenced by the fact that the Dodgers’ current 10-year postseason streak is the third-longest in baseball history. To make the postseason that many years in a row — with no end in sight to the streak — you have to be good at all the different ways of building a team.
Obviously, L.A. has a lot of money, which comes in handy when signing a free agent like Freddie Freeman or trading for and then extending a generational superstar like Mookie Betts.