Like the future of the past, always lasting bloody thoughts

And when they come, it's the end of you

Let it light in light, ooh, tell me now what it means to pass to them

Hello and welcome to episode 1584 of Effectively Wild a baseball podcast from Bandrats

presented by our Patreon supporters, and member of the ringer joined by ESPN's

sitting Miller, Lo Sam. Hey Ben, got some emails lined up and some stat blasts lined up for today

But a couple quick things I wanted to bring up first. I wanted to talk about Albert Poohol's

for a second because he had a historic run batted in. On Monday he passed A-Rod on the all-time

RBI list and now he trails only Hank Aaron and Babe Ruth and I'm sort of fascinated by Poohol's

continued RBI accumulation even after the point when he really stopped kind of contributing

to the Angels victories. So since the start of 2017 he has not been a good hitter or a good

player at least by most estimation so over that time he's hit 242 291 405 not great for a first

basement DH that's an 85 WRC plus it's negative 2.8 fangrass war and yet over that period he has

still driven in 105 runs per 162 games so he's basically been 100 RBI guy while being a sub-replacement

level player and I guess that's why we don't talk about RBI all that much because they're not all

that meaningful when it comes to player performance but it's still sort of interesting to see why

guys are getting them sometimes and with Poohol's I guess it's a combination of factors that allow

him to keep driving in runs despite not really creating that many runs. A he still has some power so

you know he's like a 20 Homer guy and everyone is a 20 Homer guy at this point with the ball the way

it is but still he's retained some home run ability he doesn't strike out a lot he's to

strike it out a little bit more this year but still well below the league average and really he

has retained the ability to put the ball in play which is kind of a double edged sword or really

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