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Originally Posted by Fire of the Phoenix
There is a chance the offense won't be as potent next year.
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Sure "there's a chance"... there is also a chance it'll be even better. Also "there's a chance" that the Pitching will be better (Dickey regains the form that got him the Cy Young pre-Toronto, Happ is the guy we saw in Pittsburgh, Stroman becomes an Ace. Baseball is a fickle game and it's silly to assume everythng that could happen will. Doubly silly to assume that only bad things will happen while good things won't.
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Originally Posted by Fire of the Phoenix
Bottom line is this is an extremely unbalanced team that was picked apart by a very balanced team in the playoffs
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About that "balanced" team...
Royals Starting Pitching:
Ventura
Volquez
Duffy
Guthrie
Young
Cueto
... those are their six most used starters. Frankly that group is at least as underwhelming as the Jays group. The Royals aren't any more "balanced" then the Jays. They were legitimately good enough to get into the playoffs and then got hot at the right time. Have those two teams play a thousand 7 game series and I'd put money on the Jays winning 60% of the time... last playoffs just happened to part of the other 40%.
There's a lot of unwarrented negativity running around. Negativity that the numbers just don't say is reasonable.