The 2004 Red Sox Weren't Even Close

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Posted By: john/z28jd

I respectfully disagree with SI then because the Cardinals have one of the best defensive teams in baseball[3 gold glovers this year and Renteria couldve won it again too] and their pitching staff finished 2nd in ERA in all of baseball by just 0.01
That doesnt sound like the stats of a team that solely relied on big boppers.The Yankees pitching staff wasnt even halfway decent and they still racked up 41 wins over the 3 bottom dwellers in their division.That sounds more like the team SI described

Head to head this year the best 3 teams in the NL central went 19-8 over the AL west and didnt lose any series,and in fact the lowly Reds split their series and Brewers won 4 of the 6 games vs AL West.

Thats why i ranked them ahead of the al west and al east 3 of the 5 teams were extremely bad,which is worse than 3 of 6 and i dont rank Yankees or Red Sox higher than the Cardinals and on paper the Cubs shouldve been better too,and without 2 top starters going down the Astros would be neck and neck too but i dont rank either far behind either AL west team