The difference and they have excellent starting pitching - and the lineup is still good even with the injuries. There have been some pretty average or below average lineups that have gone to the world series and even win it - in recent memory 2023 Dbacks , 2020 Rays, 2019 Nats, 2013 Royals, probably more I'm missing

Conversely, many killer lineups have been completely neutralized with good pitching