You may watch baseball, but you certainly don't know it. Anyone who knows it knows that RBI, runs scored, and OBP are the most important stats without a doubt. What's more important than driving in/scoring runs? Are you kidding me? What are you talking about? Yeah, RBI are a useless statistic. Right. If you aren't driving in runs when you have the chance then you aren't contributing, period. No one would ever want a player who fails at driving in runs. That's how you win the game, by scoring runs, how does your team score runs, by having someone drive them in. No RBI, no wins, maybe once every quarter century will a team win a game without registering any RBI, just a wild pitch or something. Ridiculous. You are clueless. And, subsequently, strikeouts aren't important.
HA! How many major league managers have
personally come to watch
you play? How many major league teams have asked
you to join their minor league system while you were still in high school?
I
don't know baseball? That's hilarious. I knew more about baseball when I was 12 years old than you will for the rest of your life.
The fact that you are so hung up on useless, "fan worthy" and "highlight making" stats proves that you know
nothing about the game. Barry Bonds has the most homeruns of all-time, but, does that mean he's the best baseball player ever? Fuck no. Why? Because statistics only tell a very small, almost worthless part of the story.
As for the RBI...anybody with any sort of baseball knowledge knows that it is the most useless and over-rated statistic. If there is a man on third base and you lazily pop an easy-to-hit fastball into right field and the runner scores, does that mean you're good? Fuck no. It means you were pretty fucking lucky that a man was on third base, or else you would've looked like a crappy hitter.
If you want, I can give
You Mike Hargrove's or Charlie Manuel's phone number and they'll tell you the same thing. I can also get Jim Thome's number or Joel Skinner's number or Joe Charboneau's...if you even know who those last two people are. You
should though, since you know so much about baseball. (Feel free to Google them, we all know you want to)
No one would ever want a player who fails at driving in runs.
According to statistics, which you love so much (and that zell has already provided for you), Evan Longoria fails at driving in runs on a pretty frequent basis, soooo...now what do you have to say?
Evan Longoria is good and I am not arguing that fact. He
does not, however, contribute more to his team than Alexei Ramirez does.
Strikeouts aren't important? Ok, there's a man on 2nd, 1 out and you're down by one run in the bottom of the ninth inning. Evan Longoria is up to the plate. He
strikes out. What happens? He doesn't do his job and the only thing that happens is that another out is put on the board. There is still a man on 2nd, you're still down by one and now there's 2 outs.
Same situation and Alexei Ramirez is at the plate. Instead of striking out (like Longoria is good at doing), he hits a fly ball, deep to right field. Now, the runner gets to advance to third, making it easier for him to score on a hit, wild pitch or error. Strikeouts aren't important, huh? Tell that to anyone who has ever played baseball at a level higher than T-ball and they'll laugh at you.
