Worst pitching staff that won a World Series?

That rotation is considerably better than last year's Royals if we are limiting this to starting pitching.

Ok

All those guys had some points in their careers where they were pretty solid. What were their stats for 2005?

Buehrle was a Cy Young candidate that year and had a 3.12 ERA. Garcia Garland and Contreras all had really solid years too.

OP also clearly didn't watch the 05 playoffs because I'm pretty sure the White Sox set some sort of record for complete games in the postseason after the playoffs expanded

They had 4 guys throw 200+ innings in 05 (Buehrle, Garcia, Contreras and Garland)

86 Mets. All were coked up

Dude that White Sox rotation was good. Most those guys (most notably Buehrle) has very solid careers.

The 02 angels

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2005 Chicago White Sox

Jon Garland
Mark Buehrle
Jose Contreras
Freddy Garcia
Orlando Hernandez

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They won that World Series due to their ridiculous starting pitching. They had something like four consecutive complete games against the Angels in the ALDS. The worst starting rotation to win a World Series was probably the 1993 Blue Jays. Guzman and Hentgen were their only above average starters and they were barely above average at that. Morris and Stewart were in the twilight of their careers and ineffective while Stottlemyre was mediocre at best. Of course none of that ended up mattering because they had the top 3 hitters in the AL for batting average along with a tremendous bullpen.

When the d backs won it outside of schilling and Johnson the pitching wasn't good

DBacks were like the Twins in 87

Viola
Blyleven
Straker