I totally get what you're saying, it's true that some of last year's major contributors struggled against good pitching. Cecere is a great example, although he wasn't a starter on that team when the team was fully healthy.
I'm just not going to be super convinced that this year's team is significantly better against the good pitching until some of these guys get more in-conference ABs. Guys like Winnay, Houston, and Williams have been great so far, but they only have 66, 65, and 59 conference ABs so far, and none of them have prior year track records of mashing elite pitching to fall back on. Hopefully Winnay and Houston have taken huge leaps forward, I just want to see it over a bit longer than 15-18 conference games before setting that in stone.
The team stats are also pretty heavily weighted by what Kurtz has done to VT and BC, which I know you mentioned but is worth bringing up again. I mean the dude is incredible, but he isn't going to keep this pace up forever lol