dimensional teams was re royals final run total in a previous article sweda css itd umich edu sean sweda says i ve been saying this for quite some time but being absent from the net for a while i figured i d stick my neck out a bit the royals will set the record for fewest runs scored by an al team since the inception of the dh rule p s any ideas what this is they will fall easily short of runs that s for damn sure i can t believe these media fools picking them to win the division like our tom gage of the detroit news claiming herk robinson is some kind of genius for the trades aquisitions he s made would you say the same thing about the dodgers in or true cone is probably as good as drysdale and they have no koufax but still these teams were winning with home run leaders who had very bad totals with lots of low scoring games etc and they didn t use relievers whereas jeff montgomery is having a super season for them that being said i still picked them th or so but i think a superb pitching team can win if they have enough hitting there s more of a chance of that i think than of a team with tremendous hitting but no pitching at least to me i wonder though which one do you people think would do better a team with johnson koufax in his prime seaver carlton and young in no real order as the starters with sutter fingers and lyle in the bullpen but with a puny offense assuming good defense like mazeroski maranville etc or a team with poor pitching but with an offense of cobb carew ruth gehrig mays schmidt wagner and bench again you pick the order i would postulate that the pitching one would be several games better by seasons end even the best hitters can succeed only of the time in their best years but a great pitcher can throw lots of shutouts taking all the players in their prime they might throw shutouts in a year and all the offense would have to do is get run across i wonder if someone with stratomatic or something could plug such all time teams into a regular season have it played and report the results i would love to see that doug fowler dxf po cwru edu me age now mommys and daddys other ever wonder if after casey relatives have to give lots of hugs love missed the rd strike in the poem support cause heaven is just a great he ran to first and made it big hug that lasts forever and ever
