The Good Phight: jonk: Fighting the good phight

The Adventures of Sabreboy!...(with Marcus Hayes as arch enemy…The Stuck-In-Time Trapper!)

Get a grip, sabreboy.

Burrell is paid to produce runs, not get on base. Period. Any season with fewer than 110 RBI is a flat-out failure. He’s not paid $13 million to walk. He misses strikes, he slumps, he tries to hit home runs. He is mediocre, at best, at the job to which he is assigned.

Soriano is overrated. Carlos Lee is an RBI machine. I don’t know what your problem is with Ramirez, who is arguably the best offensive 3B in the NL since 2003.

OBP and OPS are geek numbers, especially for run-producers. I’d rather have my 3-4-5 guys drive the best strike they see rather than wait for the perfect pitch and jog down the baseline.

Sabremetrics are the bastion of wannabes who never could quite figure out which hand the mitt went on, a false industry created and fueled by people whose association with the game always will be vicarious, and, frankly, pathetic.

Offensively, scoring runs and driving runs in matter in baseball. Everything else follows. That’s it. Ask any player.