This obsession with the bullpen is bizarre. A good team can win with a strong bullpen and hot hitters, sure, but they could also win with dominant starting pitching and timely hitting.
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The baseball postseason (and the sport itself) yields the best team record-wise as the champion only about half the time. With expanded playoffs, this will further decrease. It doesn't matter if your bullpen stinks or your manager is a drunk, it's not set up for the best team to win it all. Of the 3 major sports, it requires the longest regular season to reveal who the best teams are. And these 7-game series are near coin-flips.
And I have no fucking clue why I get so much pushback on that. It's math.
Great for entertainment, pretty shitty for competition-sake.