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I dont understand how analytics guys still say RBI's dont matter. Saw Keith Law say this and even put *RBIs* like that. In a league where everyone hits .240 and tries to hit a homer every pitch and striking out doesn't matter driving in a run actually does matter. I just watched the Reds fail to drive in runs like 1,000 times this season
I think it's semantics. No one thinks they don't "matter", the point about counting stats like that is the hitter in question has no control over coming up in a spot with runners on base or coming to bat with bases empty.

wRC+, OPS and all that are meant to be a better measurement of the hitters true value.

So in the case of the Reds, yeah we see guys not come through all the time and yes those runs would matter but that is on the lack of true production of the hitter, not accumulating a certain stat just because he came up in a spot that happened to be an RBI opportunity.

It's like the Save stat. You can put a average MLB player in as the closer or 4th in the lineup and they are going to accumulate a certain number of those stats just because they are of average value and get the opportunity more consistently.
 
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