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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 ...
Mike Lamb hits 50 games
With last night's loss to the Orioles, Mike Lamb has officially hit the 50-game mark - the point at which the Twins cut Tony Batista loose in 2006. Batista had 195 plate appearances that season;...
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