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Return of the Son of the Revisitation of the Myth of the RBI Guy: Careers Overrated by RBI Totals
Okay, okay, you probably figured we were done with this. And we are. Really. After this. To recap: First, taking a clue from a piece by Jonah Keri, I looked at the most overrated individual seasons si...
Revisiting the Myth of the RBI Guy (Revisited), Part Two: Situational Hitting and RE24
In last week's post on the Myth of the RBI Guy, I used a crude method inspired by Jonah Keri's piece in Baseball Between the Numbers to generate groups of individual seasons by players since 1...
Revisiting the Myth of the RBI Guy, Part One
If that's one of my worst mistakes -- to sign somebody who has 20 home runs and 97 RBIs -- I'll take it. -Royals' General Manager Dayton Moore, on Jose Guillen's 2008 performance. Everyone knows that ...
Adrian Gonzalez is on pace to break RBI record
Going into last night's game, Adrian Gonzalez had 54 RBIs. That counts for exactly 25% of the Padres 216 runs total. That's a lot, but if he and the Padres can come anywhere close to holding their res...
T.R. Sullivan, statheads, and the RBI
T.R. Sullivan's blog entry from yesterday leads off with a lengthy paean to the RBI. And it got me thinking. OBP seems to be the poster-stat for the ongoing stathead/traditionalist..."feud" is ...
Baseball Is Complicated - Why Always Look For A Simple Answer?
Maybe I don’t know anything about baseball, or maybe I have missed a very fundamental part of a ‘simple’ statistic, but since Fire Joe Morgan was willing to take apart this article, I strongly s...
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