I gotta be honest, this chart only proves one thing– baseball is absolutely strange.
This interactive chart doesn't seem too interactive does it? That's partly my fault and it's also partly the nature of the St. Louis Cardinals' offense over these particular seasons.
Above us shows us the team totals for batting average (AVG, not included is the "." at the beginning), total Home Runs (HRs) hit, On-Base Plus Slugging or OPS (once again, here's a great breakdown from Jon Bois explaining OPS), and total runs scored.
Contrast that against 2015's offense that produced very middling-to-low offensive numbers and I remember the phrase going around that year as they marched to 100 regular-season wins was "this team is built on run suppression." The whole "a run saved is as good as a run created" philosophy.
Once again, here are the Win-Loss records for each season this time partnered with total bases and where that ranked against the other fourteen NL clubs:
This all goes to show that you can have a good year if one or two of the team's facets produces well, but it truly requires the entire team achieving and contributing together in order to have an outstanding year culminating with a deep run through October.
Speaking of which, let's look at the notable players over the course of these seasons.