This year’s League Championship Series matchups are intriguing for a number of reasons. Among them: A test of the significance of starting rotation firepower in modern October baseball.

This LCS edition of the Starting Pitcher Power Rankings illustrates that point, especially on the NL side. While the Dodgers’ entire postseason rotation shows up here, the Brewers squeezed one pitcher into our top 10. The Mariners’ advantage over the Blue Jays is less stark but still present. (And that gap would have been wider if we knew Bryan Woo was close to 100% healthy for Seattle. Since that remains up in the air , Woo didn’t make the cut here.)

Then again, it’s Milwaukee and Toronto who are the top seeds in the NL and AL bracket, respectively, and both wildly outperformed expectations all season

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