rbis Stories - Beyond the Box Score
Who Leads the Royals in RBIs?
Who leads the Royals in RBIs? Who are the top three? Do you have any idea? Who leads the AL in RBIs? (Or RsBI or whatever.) Who leads the NL? Do you still follow this stat at all? I really don't. Not trying to be polemical about it, just admitting something. I have no idea about RBIs anymore. I...
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 respective paces, it'll break a Major League record that's stood for 36 years and one that is,...
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 probably not the right word. Battle of paradigms? Or paradigae? Whatever the plural of paradigm...
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 suspect it’s not just me. Maybe I simply expect too much from the official MLB.com site, but in my...
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