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The championship teams were absolutely elite by a wide margin at making contact, playing defense and of course the bullpen. The thing no one ever talks about is other teams started copying what the Royals did. Not exactly the same way of course, but the Astros leaned hard into making contact, the Rays put a really great defense out there and now everyone has a bullpen full of power arms. No one will ever directly credit the Royals for that, but those are all things they did better than everyone else when they "broke" the game and were supposedly a fluke.
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