I think most teams only have about 5 or so true core players...4+ WAR guys and/or dominant BP arms (WAR doesn’t properly rate relievers).
Legit AS level guys.
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I was at a game at Shea Stadium in 1978 that became infamous. In the actual game, the Dodgers scored 3 runs in the top of the 9th inning to come back to beat the Mets by a score of 5-4. What none of us knew until after the game was that there was a fight in the Dodgers locker room between Don Sutton and Steve Garvey. Davey Lopes got hurt trying to break it up, and was subsequently scratched from the lineup.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYN/NYN197808200.shtml
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No he wasn’t.
First of all, he threw 14 innings. That isn’t any kind of a sample size to even really discuss.
Secondly, he had a mediocre K rate and a very lucky and unsustainable BABiP.
He was hardly dominant.