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“The last two months, forget about being tired or whatever, the good teams somehow get better, not only within themselves, but at the (non-waiver trade) deadline there’s always moves made,” Jose Bautista said in an interview Wednesday. “And I’m not trying to bring up that issue again, and I’m not referring to our lack of moves, but that does happen.
“Teams at the top do strengthen up and get better, and the guys that either don’t add or just stay the same somehow don’t improve or get worse. I’m not saying that’s necessarily been the case, but that’s one of the things I can look at and point and say that might be it.”
“Bottom line is we’ve just got to keep playing good and we haven’t the last two years prior to this year, but we were out of it so it didn’t matter,” said Bautista. “This year actually it mattered. When I look at it, this is the only important one out of those three years. And we still have time, it’s not over yet, we have a lot of games against the teams that are on top.