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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Little bit, sure.
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No, not a little bit. Fully. MLB is easily the hardest to do it in anyway given the (1) massive payroll disparity and (2) long lead time of personnel coming they the development pipeline.
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But nothings less predictable in baseball than bullpen performance. And the Royals won consecutive AL Pennants on the back of a bullpen that was dominant for 2 seasons and HISTORICALLY so for one of them.
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Who said it was “on the back of a bullpen”? We won 89 and 95 games in the AL (!) becasue of a bullpen? Sounds like bull-shit, bro.
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You can put an element of luck on any championship, yes. But when you build a team around the one thing that's essentially impossible to count on in that sport AND in the process you get a performance that's not just unexpected and not just great, but almost certainly better than any team in baseball history has ever had while committing a paucity of resources to it....well there's more luck there than most.
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The Royals 3 were dominant for several years so the whole Blake Treinen types of comparisons won’t work. They went 22-9 in those playoff runs too, so they dominated the best teams. They very easily could’ve won both WS.
If you want to talk luck here’s my advice: the 14 wild card game and 15 Alds 4