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The Astros are the team that is starting to look like what the Cubs thought they were going to be. And that's with Correa being disappointing as hell this year.
That said, the Astros are going to have similar issues in 2020 and if they can't get at least one more this year or next, they're gonna look back on this era as a little disappointing as well.
The major difference appears to be that when the Astros went fishing for pitching, they got guys that have come up huge for them in Verlander and Cole. The Cubs went with the longer view chasing Quintana and Darvish but both guys have been much less effective. In Hamels, they got some version of what the Astros have gotten from Verlander but it wasn't enough.
And unlike the Astros, who still have guys like Whitley, Tucker and Alvarez to fill some holes as players like Springer and Morton get too expensive to retain, the Cubs largely cleaned out their farm system over the last 3 seasons.
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