While I can agree and disagree with some of the thoughts that y'all have posted here, we must realize that nothing is really overrated in baseball, except for opinions.
I disagree with Limom when (s)he states that "normally the first five or six hitters in the lineup are very good" on a high school team. Those "very good' high school hitters usually don't hit much at all against a "very good" pitcher, so it is only an opinion that they are very good hitters.
I also watched the World Series last week, Moc1. That World Series was a great example (in games 2,3, and 4) of great pitching beating great hitting. There wasn't much pitching in game 1. If the Cardinals had better pitching, it would have been a much more competitive series, so we could say that in that Series the Cardinals' hitting prowess was overestimated, overrated????