Yesterday, the Dodgers won the World Series in Game 6, winning the series 4-2 against the Tampa Bay Rays. Of course, there are many things to talk about in that game alone, but what I want to find out is if there is a common "theme" between all of the teams that won the World Series and their ranking regarding their offense, starting pitching, and relief pitching. Of course, there are massive overgeneralizations made here, but I want to see if there is some way that we can reduce the number of teams that can possibly win the World Series by finding such a ranking system.

I chose the last 10 seasons to analyze and looked at their ranking among teams that played that season for offense, starting pitching, and relief pitching. Although there are 2 exceptions, what I saw is that all of the teams that did win the World Series had a ranking in one department 3 or higher. Now, the two exceptions that I did note were the 2011 Cardinals and the 2014 Giants, both of which had incredible and extraordinary runs in the postseasons that led to success. The 2014 Giants had Madison Bumgardner, and the 2011 Cardinals had Albert Pujols to lead them into the Wild Card. The data here might be low, but so far, based on what we have seen this last decade, it looks like most teams need to be anchored by one part of their play (offense, starting pitching, or relief pitching), and make sure that the weaknesses do not show up when they do play. Their weaknesses cannot show up so much as to nullify their strengths. We have seen that with the 2019 Nationals, whose strong pitching core, and an offense held by postseason hero Howie Kendrick.