Quote:2. Exactly my point. One hitter (when he isn't even the best hitter) isn't going to break a team or lineup apart. That's silly. Baseball is a game of up and downs. They just happened to have a terrible stretch at the wrong time.

Kansas City and St. Louis had by far the worst offenses going into the playoffs, and look where they are now.

 
The playoffs are a crapshoot based on randomness of small sample sizes. Let's not get off topic.

I'm not saying that it is the only thing that contributed to Oakland's woes. You keep reverting to that fallacy as if you want me to defend it. Saying it was 100% the reason for their offensive collapse is idiotic. So is saying that it was 0% related to their offensive woes, though, and that is what you are doing.

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