http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/2632 This and that about baseball stats. Tue, 16 Jul 2013 17:01:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/2632/comment-page-1#comment-9162 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:14:35 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/?p=2632#comment-9162 There was a discussion of career RBI per HR on SABR-l in August. Accorrding to David Vincent, Sam Thompson leads all players with 100+ HR with 1.95 RBI per HR, Cobb is second at 1.90. This strongly suggests Howard's 1.93 is not sustainable. Raising the bar to 200 HR, Vincent finds Jim Bottomley and Rudy York at 1.79. Lou Gehrig did 1.77, Ted Williams and Jimmie Foxx, 1.76. Nowadays it's very hard to have any significant number of career HR and stay above 1.7 RBI per.

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