While I think most baseball observers will stand by the opinion that Kansas City is a good team that earned their playoff spot; I think it's pretty clear that the Royals benefited from a massive amount of luck in the championship series and the world series.  Incredible "clutch" hitting is not only *not* a reproducible skill, it's not even statistically identifiable.  However, maintaining a bullpen full of high-output relievers IS a quantifiable strategy.

Bottom line is, it's a good article, and later I'm going to go through it in a post and see what the Rangers are doing in relation.

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