Buster Posey: The Money Lies with RBI for Giants MVP Catcher

Wednesday night, Buster Posey became the first San Francisco Giants player to drive in 100 runs since Barry Bonds did it back in 2004. As Jeff Kent once said, the money lies with RBI.

During baseball's Moneyball era, RBI have been replaced with newer, fancy-sounding metrics like Wins Above Replacement (WAR) and On-Base Plus Slugging Percentage (OPS).

RBI have been labeled as a counting stat that tell us more about the number of opportunities a player has to drive in runs than anything else. It's a context-dep...

Read Complete Article at Bleacher Report - San Francisco Giants
Article is property of BleacherReport.com