“We’re always going to have to balance near term with long term,” Stearns said. “That’s true now, it’s going to be true next year and it’s going to be true the year after that. Our goal here is to have a team that is in position for us to add at the deadline year after year after year." I like that. I think the strategy they are using is smart. It is important to avoid being impulsive in judging the trade deadline. 3 years from now we can look back and see how valuable Brinson & Hader were in '18/'19/'20 and look and see how valuable Gray & Quintana were in those years too.... if we were two trades away from being in a position to blow out the Dodgers that'd be different, but we're not.... yet