Pitching may be all-important to winning in baseball nowadays, especially when it comes to post seasons play, but nothing battles great pitching better than an old-fashioned, well-balanced line-up.
A balance of speed and power, lefty and righty hitters, run scorers and run producers, are essential to giving the opposing pitcher no easy outs, as well as affecting the opposing manager's strategy when the game becomes more "specialized" in the later innings. Having a solid balance of all three of the aforementioned, and the lineup enters elite status.
Pitching may always win championships, but offense still wins games...and no manager wants to give away any wins.
So who has the best offense in baseball, who has the worst, and which ones may surprise in 2010?
Note: All rankings based on projected lineups.
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