Bengie Molina, 2nd best!

Fangraphs article looking at players who are over and undervalued based on RBI's. This is what I thought particularly funny and interesting:

"2007-2009 Leaders and Trailers (qualifed, 250 RBI minimum):

1. Jeff Francoeur, 1.30 RBI/24RC. .313 wOBA, 252 RBI, -17.62 Sitch
2. Bengie Molina, 1.28 RBI/24RC. .317 wOBA, 256 RBI, 23.29 Sitch
3. Robinson Cano, 1.28 RBI/24RC. .346 wOBA, 254 RBI, -53.47 Sitch
4. Garrett Atkins, 1.19 RBI/24RC. .339 wOBA, 258 RBI, -6.31 Sitch
5. Mike Lowell, 1.18 RBI/24RC. .359 wOBA, 268 RBI, -4.79 Sitch
6. Ryan Howard, 1.16 RBI/24RC. .385 wOBA, 423 RBI, 22.80 Sitch
…
43. Lance Berkman, 0.80 RBI/24RC. .397 wOBA, 288 RBI, 25.32 Sitch
44. Albert Pujols, 0.80 RBI/24RC. .440 wOBA, 354 RBI, 15.22 Sitch
45. Hanley Ramirez, 0.72 RBI/24RC. .409 wOBA, 254 RBI, -27.34 Sitch

Note how much the Sitch scores fluctuate on both ends of the rankings and draw your own conclusions. Any list with Frenchy and Bengie on one end and Pujols and Han-Ram on the other speaks for itself."

Bengie was #1 on the context-neutral version of these rankings, found:
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/the-2009-carter-batista-award

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Only #2

How disappointing

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by Bhaakon on Nov 19, 2009 2:25 PM PST reply actions

Oh, poo.

Context, people. More context is good. Less context is bad. If you're willing to be reductive, then you're willing to be wrong.

by howtheyscored on Nov 19, 2009 2:32 PM PST up reply actions

What in the heck is sitch?

"All I know is right now, you comeback and do you dwell on that? I think you're man enough to take it, you're man enough to chew on it, to spit it out and you learn from it. ... I think winners let it go. I think losers dwell on it and talk about it all week and that screws you up for the next opportunity going forward." - Mike Singletary after the 49ers loss to the Vikings

by SFGuy on Nov 19, 2009 4:53 PM PST reply actions

Just Guessing - Situational Hitting?

by giantsrainman on Nov 19, 2009 5:00 PM PST up reply actions

It’s just a completely made up stat that they did to compare RBI production to actual production. Bengie’s RBI production was the most overrated compared to his real production in the majors in their first, context neutral run through, once they added context he was 2nd. But yeah, it’s not a real stat or anything, it was just made for those two articles.

by Missing Barry on Nov 19, 2009 5:17 PM PST up reply actions