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Originally Posted by Cod
... I realized the backend of my rotation was dominant; however, they didn't pitch in the playoffs....
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Yeah, something similar is what's got me in my latest league. I assemble my team to do great in the regular season and that means good starters 1-6 or 7 even, but in the postseason what you really want is 1 or 2 starters who will go out there and just dominate the opposition, like Johnson and Schilling. But it's just not always easy to get those dominant starters. They're next to impossible to draft and develop so you pretty much have to either trade for them or sign them as FAs and either way they're going to probably be really expensive which takes away from the potential of the rest of your team. But when we, seemingly inevitably now, lose in the postseason, I can always point to the best pitcher or two on the opposition and say, "That's why we lost. We don't have somebody like him."
I think a great bullpen is important too, but that's just not as difficult to assemble as a great 1-2 punch.
As for the hitting, I'm squarely in the camp of you want a good mix of power and getting on base, but maybe even more importantly, getting hits and not striking out. Going strong one way vs the other (OBA vs SLG or small ball vs long ball) just doesn't work as reliably as a good mix does.