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Dunn since 2004 --
46/102
40/101
40/92
40/106
Last year Dunn hit quite well overall, higher BA, and the RBI total was pretty good. Still has never made it to 110 or above.
Others are all over the map. Thome last year at 35/96. Holliday last year at 35/137.
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Kc61
Others are all over the map. .
That's because RBI is a team dependent stat.
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Raisor
That's because RBI is a team dependent stat.
In part, Raisor. But it is also because of production in non-home run situations. A .350 hitter typically will get a bunch of RBIs from non-home run at bats, singles and doubles. A .250 hitter, with far fewer singles and doubles, may get fewer RBIs overall.
Yes, RBI is team dependent, obviously. But Matt Holliday got more RBIs than Dunn, in part, because he hit .340 and Dunn hit .264. Holliday had 216 base hits overall, Adam had 138.
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SteelSD
Is it really all that rare? Research tells us it's not. In 2007 Prince Fielder hit 50 HR and drove in 119 Runs. Remove 10 solo shots and you have 40 HR and 109 RBI; which would be three more RBI than Dunn posted. Others recently:
Derrek Lee 2005: 46 HR/107 RBI
Barry Bonds 2004: 45 HR/101 RBI
Jim Thome 2004: 42 HR/105 RBI
Jim Edmonds 2004: 42 HR/111 RBI
Moises Alou 2004: 39 HR/106 RBI
Barry Bonds 2003: 45 HR/90 RBI
Javy Lopez 2003: 43 HR/109 RBI
Sammy Sosa 2003: 40 HR/103 RBI
Jeff Bagwell 2003: 39 HR/100 RBI
Jim Edmonds 2003: 39 HR/89 RBI
Sammy Sosa 2002: 49 HR/108 RBI
Barry Bonds 2002: 46 HR/110 RBI
Vlad Guerrero 2002: 39 HR/111 RBI
Barry Bonds 2000: 49 HR/106 RBI
Garry Sheffield 2000: 43 HR/109 RBI
Jim Edmonds 2000: 42 HR/108 RBI
If 40 Home Runs makes you a shoe-in for the mythical annual 135 RBI plane of existence, then how'd all that happen?
Over the past four years Dunn has averaged 100 RBI/yr. There's only two on the your list that are under that number. One was a sub 40 HR year and the other was a year in which Bonds had only 390 ABs. Dunn's last 4 years have included well over 500 ABs. That's a lot of chances to drive in runs that Bonds didn't have. Come to think of it, Jim Edmonds also had less than 450 ABs.
If you're saying Dunn is adept at driving in runs have at it. I'm saying he's not and that's why he belongs in the #2 slot.
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Sea Ray
I wouldn't blame the lineup. He can't hit with RISP. His career avg of .221 in such situations has to be historically low. Even Dave Kingman bested that by 20 pts. You can't have a guy in the middle of your lineup hitting .221 w/RISP. Because of that he might as well hit 2nd.
It's tough to hit 40 HRs and only knock in 100 but that's been Dunn's pattern. That's another rare skill this guy's got.
I was waiting for the Kingman reference, and there it is.
RedsZone wouldn't be the same without Dunn being compared to Kingman on a regular basis.
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Raisor
That's because RBI is a team dependent stat.
Doesn't seem to effect Dunn. Even in 2005 when the Reds led the league in runs scored Dunn's RBI total hovered around 100...didn't vary much from today's offensively challenged Reds team
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Kc61
Yes, RBI is team dependent, obviously. But Matt Holliday got more RBIs than Dunn, in part, because he hit .340 and Dunn hit .264. Holliday had 216 base hits overall, Adam had 138.
Holliday hitting 3rd all year helped a bit as well.
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While Dunn might not be racking up the RBIs, he's certainly not lacking in creating runs.
As long as he continues to create runs, he's doing his job, wouldn't you say? Or does he have to create runs with his RBIs?
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Kc61
In part, Raisor. But it is also because of production in non-home run situations. A .350 hitter typically will get a bunch of RBIs from non-home run at bats, singles and doubles. A .250 hitter, with far fewer singles and doubles, may get fewer RBIs overall.
Yes, RBI is team dependent, obviously. But Matt Holliday got more RBIs than Dunn, in part, because he hit .340 and Dunn hit .264. Holliday had 216 base hits overall, Adam had 138.
Maybe it had to do with Holliday getting 50 more PA's with runners on, too.
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This is where the whole Dunn/OBP stat becomes interesting. Dunn walks a lot, which helps with runs scored but doesn't help much with RBIs. Guys seldom get RBIs from walks (bases must be loaded, etc.)
But Dunn doesn't get a lot of hits. In the last three season he has had 134, 131, and 138 hits, respectively. This hurts his ability to knock in runs because, obviously, when you don't homer the way to get lots of RBIs is through timely singles and doubles.
So Dunn's strengths are homers, naturally, and walks leading sometimes to runs scored. But he gets too few base hits to be a very high RBI man. That's just his skill set, some very good strengths, but some areas not so strong.
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I seem to remember reading an article earlier in the season (maybe ST), that Dusty doesn't have a very high regard for stats. Unfortunately, some managers think they are smarter than what the numbers suggest and/or prove.
Well, when the "smarts" start failing you, seems a smart manger would try going with what the numbers are shouting in his ear. What can it hurt? And it might even help.
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Dusty seems to approach his roster from a fixed view of what it should look like. He then tries to map his talent to that fixed structure. That means Dunn is an "RBI guy", regardless of how his skill set may be better leveraged; In the same way, Corey Patterson is a leadoff man.
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Highlifeman21
I was waiting for the Kingman reference, and there it is.
RedsZone wouldn't be the same without Dunn being compared to Kingman on a regular basis.
Where's the love for Rob Deer comps?
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Kc61
In part, Raisor. But it is also because of production in non-home run situations. A .350 hitter typically will get a bunch of RBIs from non-home run at bats, singles and doubles. A .250 hitter, with far fewer singles and doubles, may get fewer RBIs overall.
Yes, RBI is team dependent, obviously. But Matt Holliday got more RBIs than Dunn, in part, because he hit .340 and Dunn hit .264. Holliday had 216 base hits overall, Adam had 138.
Matt Holliday had 307 AB with Runners On in 2007. Dunn had 241. In those AB, Holliday saw 415 Runners on. Dunn saw 330 ducks on the pond during his AB. Holliday drove in 28.7% of the Runners he saw during his AB and Dunn drove in 26.4% of his Runners as a result of his AB. Apply Dunn's rate to Holliday's opportunity and you have an RBI total of 110 RBI with Runners On. Add in Dunn's solo HR and you have 129 RBI, which would certainly be enough to impress even Marty Brennaman.
Dunn isn't deficient in this area. Never has been.