It's been less than 72 hours since the Royals won the World Series, and there's already countless articles up about how other teams can learn from their success; but in this Rockpile, I'm going to do something different and not link any of them. While it's true that Kansas City is a model in several aspects of team building including diamond wide defense and bullpen dominance, there's one critical piece to their World Series run that simply can't be overlooked, and it's this:
Source: FanGraphs
Game 4 of the ALDS against the Astros.