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Braves’ bold summer trades continue to pay dividends in World Series

TORONTO – Shortly after Jorge Soler hammered the third pitch of the World Series opener over the left-field wall, Fox Sports play-by-play announcer Joe Buck detailed Atlanta’s clever pre-deadline remake of its outfield. President of baseball operations and GM Alex Anthopoulos had, in Buck’s estimation, “one of the best Julys a GM has ever had.” Given the transformational impact Soler, Adam Duvall, Eddie Rosario and Joc Pederson have delivered since joining the sputtering club, which extended into Tuesday night’s Game 1, 6-2, victory over the Houston Astros , it’s hard to argue. Still, for Toronto Blue Jays fans, Buck’s comment opened an interesting debate: Is Anthopoulos’ work this summer better than that in 2015, when his frenetic deadline-week acquisitions of Troy Tulowitzki, LaTroy Hawkins, David Price, Mark Lowe and Ben Revere helped end a 21-year post-season drought? There are parallels and differences, but in both cases the augmentation of .500 clubs led to deep post-season r...