Ash, you raise a good question.......that I don't know the answer to. Were the Twins consistently scoring 4-5 runs a game, or was the deviation big? I have looked for those numbers before, but never found them. I've also wondered that about individual players......what's more valuable, hitting consistently (though not as often) in games, or having the occasional explosive game with bad games? Also, with pitchers, the reason I actually kind of like the quality start stat is that it indicates the number of games the pitcher gave his team a chance to win.....as opposed to ERA which assumes all innings are equal. These are humans, and somedays, they just don't have it.