tomdalton22
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A team needs both pitching and offense to win, but 70% of all wins over the last 20-30 years have come when your team scores 5 or more ,runs. There are a lot more 5-1, 6-1, 7-2 or 8-3 games, then there are 2-1 games or 3-2 games.
70% of all wins come when a team scores 5 or more runs. You could attribute those runs scored to bad pitching by the other team just as easily as you could the offense. Look at Sanchez and Pelfrey. Together they have 32 starts and the opposing team scored 5 or more runs in 21 of those games. I think it has more to do with bad pitching vs. the offense producing. Almost any team will put up 5 or more runs vs bad pitching.
To your other point...it is kind of a chicken vs egg situation. Do teams score 5 or more because they have a good offense that day or is it because the opposing pitching?