David Murphy: How the Phillies and Astros built their World Series rosters

HOUSTON — Good players.

Dave Dombrowski said it with a smile. The Phillies team president had just been asked if he could identify any common variables among the four rosters that he has taken to the World Series.

“That’s what gets you there,” Dombrowski said as he sat in the visitor’s dugout at Minute Maid Park on Thursday afternoon. “The thread is good players. That’s really the thread.”