Revisiting The RBI And Its Relevance

The statheads have taught us what an irrelevant stat the RBI is. They say it’s so team dependent, despite the fact that many top RBI men each year play for teams with an average-to-lousy offense. Well, why don’t we take a look at this year so far?

Josh Hamilton leads the majors with 37 RBI’s and plays for the league average Texas Rangers offense.

David Wright shares the sixth highest total, 28 RBI’s, representing the below average New York Mets offense. He has as many RBI’s as Conor Jackson, David Ortiz, Chase Utley, and Kevin Youkilis. How’s that possible!?! The other guys play for teams in the top four for runs scored. This can’t be happening! RBI’s are team dependent!

Justin Morneau’s tied in the seventh spot with Mark Reynolds (Arizona – top offense) and Miguel Tejada (Houston – top ten). Minnesota has a lousy offense… so something isn’t right here. Maybe some dumb ass queens have miscalculated their gospel. No way!

Would you like to know who has the worst offense thus far in the majors? The San Diego Padres. Want to know who shares the 8th highest RBI total in the land? Adrian Gonzalez. But, it’s team dependent.

Going down another tier to 24 RBI’s, is that Vernon Wells of the lousy Blue Jay offense? Sure is. Casey Blake of the sub par Indians offense? You betcha. Another Met, Ryan Church? Yup. B.J. Upton of the average D-Ray offense? Indeed.

Now, hold on a second. These guys have the same number of RBI’s, 24, as Manny Ramirez of the high-powered Boston attack? Manny must get WAY more opportunities than those guys. His team has a better offense!

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The moral of the story is… a majority of the shit that statheads think is idiotic bullshit. These guys have become a culture much like liberal arts college professors. No one outside of academia gives a fuck what they think and their work has no value to anyone. Likewise, no one cares what bullshit statheads come up with except for other statfags.

But, when you’re as abominably stupid as this loser motherfucker, you can find company in cyberland. You can find other guys who weren’t good at sports, yet feel a need to demonstrate superiority to the athletes themselves.

Laughing… Livan’s on his way to what he always does… 200 innings. He’s already a quarter of the way there.

What kind of idiot dumbfuck wouldn’t want Livan in his rotation? What kind of moron doesn’t like 200 innings? Honestly… Dan Szymborski must be the single dumbest faggot stathead in all of America. Maddog will be disappointed to find himself a close second. He’s the genius who showed us all that the Cubs lost the Michael Barrett trade… using WARP 3.2!

Unbelievable how fucking stupid these rejects are.

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Now, back to a stat that actually matters, RBI’s… and in its better form… runs + RBI’s. Let’s take a look at our Cubbies shall we?

D-Rock – 55
Aramis – 47
GeoSoto – 40
DeRosa – 39
Fukudome – 36
Ronny – 32
Theriot – 31
Johnson – 28
Soriano – 21

Looks about right to me. Anyone care to argue these rankings? The only argument I’d make is the overall impact Fukudome’s had. His approach really seems to have rubbed off on the team. That’s bigger than the numbers.

But, I ask you once again. For this year thus far, does any stat head care to argue these offensive rankings for much further?

See… I didn’t even need to make up stupid shit like ZORP 4.1 to do it, either! Dumb fucking queen statheads.

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