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Originally Posted by bedir than average

Yep, but RBIs don't tell the whole picture.

Oh, I'm sure that it doesn't. As a matter of fact, I tend to consider that stat highly overrated. I was just confirming that I had my facts right when I said that. Wasn't trying to prove a point of his MVP status or anything.

One sabermetric that I particularly love is the RC27 stat. It says that, assuming you have a team comprising of nine of the same player, "this" is the number of runs [on average] that your team would score in a game. It doesn't even take RBI's into account with the many formulas that people have come up with for this stat. In 2004, Barry Bonds had a number of like twenty something, which is believable for his average, slugging percentage, and on-base percentage for that year.