With Manny Machado headed to LA, the Brewers (and Royals) can win the trade deadline

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For small market MLB teams, staying competitive long-term can be a challenge. Us here locally in Kansas City have seen that first hand. One good stretch of being very good, one good stretch of being very bad. Another stretch of being very good, and here comes the bad. Small market teams don’t have the financial capacity to sign Bryce Harper and Manny Machado this offseason. They also can’t re-sign their own free agents who have come up through the farm system and spent their entire careers with one team. Small market teams must build from within. Raise your own prospects, move them in waves, and keep ‘em coming. Sign a mid-level free agent once in a while to fill the holes. That’s how the Kansas

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