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Originally Posted by Sylvanfan
Yeah, and he's hitting 3rd in the order on a last place team where he has Ichiro on base for like 38% of his at bats. Thats a pretty favorable situation to stack your RBI totals. The .833OPS is respectable, but really not a huge upgrade on what the team had received last year from Frank Thomas. That team had good pitching and still wasn't anywhere close to competing for a playoff spot.
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Exactly. RBI's don't mean a whole lot. They're simply a product of your position in the order.
Ibanez is not what this team needs. If Lind struggled this year then he'd be a solid pick-up, but our OF is full up right now and I doubt Ibanez wants to DH. We desperately need a big time .900+ OPS bat at clean-up.