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9.17.2003
Barry Bonds for Dummies Ok, I'm starting to come to grips with the fact that there are tons of people out there who just don't get the value of a walk. You want RBIs. And Runs. And HRs. How pushy. Let's do something just for the fun of it. It's not really a solid analysis, but maybe those folks who don't pay attention to solid analysis will take something away from this. Let's remove walks from the Barry-Pujols debate. For every walk, we'll let each of them have another at-bat. Barry: 364 AB + 143 BB + 9 HBP = 516 PAs Pujols: 551 AB + 70 BB + 10 HBP = 631 PAs So let's give Barry 516 ABs and Pujols 631 ABs and pro-rate the rest of their stats: Barry: .118 HR/AB * 516 ABs = 61 HRs Pujols: .076 HR/AB * 631 ABs = 48 HRs (For every 2 homeruns Pujols hits, Barry hits 3. Wow.) Barry: .288 R/AB * 516 ABs = 149 Runs Pujols: .234 R/AB * 631 ABs = 148 Runs Barry: .236 RBI/AB * 516 ABs = 121 RBIs Pujols: .223 RBI/AB * 631 ABs = 141 RBIs Ok, so Barry has 13 more HRs than Pujols, the same number of Runs, and 20 less RBIs... in 115 less at-bats!!! Yes, that's a point in Barry's FAVOR in this discussion. Because even if you let a scrub take those 115 at-bats, he'll still create some runs for your team.
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