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Are your 2019 Astros the best team of all-time on paper?

It is not very often a team can compile a dominant pitching staff that has an equally dominant offense. Most World Series teams have one or the other, it is the truly elite teams throughout history that have been able to excel above their peers at both. Are the Astros one of those teams?

In the past, it would have been fruitless to try to compare different teams from countless different eras. The worst team from when the mounds were raised in 1968, had a lower team ERA than the best pitching staff in the height of the steroid era in 2000 (Washington Senators 3.