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Our staff *didn't* outpitch those other staffs you might prefer. Once you adjust for team defense and park affects, our staff was 5th best in the AL, not first best. So the key to our RA column next year probably is not going to be the fluctuations in pitching performance for the unknown quantites (Snell, Mororw, Hypehn etc)...it's going to be whether we continue to be a great defensive club or not. A lot of the analysis needs to be focued on whether our defensive performance was repeatable, because there is legitimate reason to think that maybe we had a team-wide caqreer year on defense and that even with the same cast, it won't be that amazing again.