They say that pitching wins championships, and as the hometown Giants proved last year, that’s true more often that not. But the real truth is that pitching is a necessary, but not sufficient, key to bringing home a World Series title.

Everyone knows the A’s have a talented stable of young guns. That’s the reason some pundits had picked them to win the AL West this year. And while those same people freely admit...

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