re sandberg runs rbis was re notes on jays vs indians series bratt crchh a nosubdomain nodomain john bratt writes rbis and runs scored are the two most important offensive statistics actually they re pretty worthless if you want to evaluate players with stats rbis and runs scored should be banned all they do is confuse victims of mediot brainwashing like yourself you can talk about obp and slg all you want but the fact remains the team that scores more runs wins the game uh so you ve just explained why we use obp and slg to evaluate players precisely because the team that scores more runs wins the game traditional baseball stats have gotten way too far away from methods which enable fans to see who contributes to those runs scored that s where obp slg runs created linear weights etc come in these simplify matters so that we can more easily measure a player s offensive contribution to the team s runs scored thank you for making our case have a nice day greg
