Been hot here so I was outside listening to the radio more than watching the game this weekend, lost of Jeff and Marty and I think I caught a constant message from them:
What's important in baseball when you have a bat in your hands
- RBI's - The reason god makes money to give to baseball players is spelled R B I and anyone who disagrees is pretty much an idiot... did you know Joey Votto has BLANK RBIs?? Did you know Chris Davis and Cabrea have BLANK more RBIs? Those guys know how to get it done, unlike the sabermetric inclined Votto.
- Sacrifice Bunts - No one can do it, no one does it enough, no one doe sit like the old days, guys just don't appreciate it like they did in the past.
- Sacrifice flies - Good lord man, do your job... make an out to get in a run, don't you know that that is what expected of you?
Using that criteria I'm pretty sure that Marty's favorite ballplayer is in this group.
Code:RBI YEAR RBI SAC SF 1 Roberto Alomar 1999 120 12 13 2 Wally Joyner 1986 100 10 12 3 Kevin Elster 1996 99 16 11 4 Larry Hisle 1976 96 11 9 5 Roy Smalley 1979 95 15 9 6 Dwayne Murphy 1982 94 12 8 7 Brooks Robinson 1960 88 13 8 8 Brooks Robinson 1962 86 10 10 9 Willie Davis 1962 85 10 8 10 Vic Power 1960 84 14 7 T11 Johnny Logan 1955 83 16 7 T11 Ken Landreaux 1979 83 10 8 13 Brady Anderson 1992 80 10 9 T14 Craig Biggio 1995 77 11 7 T14 Roy Smalley 1978 77 23 7 16 Marco Scutaro 2012 74 10 9 T17 Angel Berroa 2003 73 13 8 T17 Melky Cabrera 2007 73 10 9 19 Juan Uribe 2005 71 11 10 20 Joe Cunningham 1962 70 10 8